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Re: genx - consensus items

• To: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>
• Subject: Re: genx - consensus items
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:19:42 -0800
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>,"David Tolpin" <dvd@d...>
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On Jan 23, 2004, at 10:04 AM, Joshua Allen wrote:

> It's a pretty big hit.  XML is all about string comparison.  Any
> implementation that cared about perf would presumably atomize strings
> that were subject to frequent comparison.

In genx, the only significant string comparison is checking for dupe 
attributes (I think; haven't written the code yet).  Since you only 
check each one once, the cost of doing an intern() (what I assume you 
mean by atomize) is probably higher than just doing the string 
comparison. -Tim

smime.p7s

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