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Re: XML Performance in Client-Server Interactions

• To: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• Subject: Re: XML Performance in Client-Server Interactions
• From: Rick Marshall <rjm@z...>
• Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 10:33:29 +1100
• Cc: Dennis Sosnoski <dms@s...>, Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>, "Roger L. Costello" <costello@m...>, xml-dev@l...
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Elliotte Harold wrote:

> Dennis Sosnoski wrote:
>
>
>> Not sure what you're basing this on, Rich, but it doesn't match what 
>> I've seen. See the results at 
>> http://xbis.sourceforge.net/performance.html, for instance, where 
>> generating text XML from a parse event stream takes on average about 
>> the same amount of time as parsing the text to get back the parse 
>> event stream 
>
>
> That sounds suspicious. Parsing has a lot more overhead than just 
> writing out text strings. I suspect the real comparison here may be 
> between a system that does full well-formedness checking and one that 
> doesn't. Many systems can blast XML out pretty quickly using printf or 
> equivalent. They don't necessarily need to call a method for each tag 
> or text node or check well-formedness on output.
>
guess it depends on whether the well-formedness is done in advance by a 
person or on the fly by a computer :) there was another thread somewhere 
that pointed out the advantages of using a computer, but i suspect most 
have found the person just a good 80/20 fit for specific cases

rick

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  • Re: XML Performance in Client-Server Interactions
    • From: Dennis Sosnoski <dms@s...>
  • Re: XML Performance in Client-Server Interactions
    • From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>

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