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Hello! > > Of course loading binary files is faster than parsing huge text files, > anyone who's been in this field for any time will tell you that, > without needing empirical evidence. > About empirical evidence. A long time ago I wrote a parser of PYX format (www.pyxie.org). PYX format is a simple line-oriented presentation of XML. Every XML element/attribute/PI/data is represented by one line, first character of line -- code of type of content. Obviously, parsing of this specific format is more efficient and faster than parsing of standard XML. In order to demonstrate it, I compared that module with 'XML::Parser'. I took ~1000 XML files in sum ~40 Mb. Result is: general-purpose XML parser is faster than pyx parser. By the way, XML::Parser was also converting content of file to utf8. Obviously this is result of my bad /dev/hands, but... Bye! ---- Oleg
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