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Didier PH Martin wrote: > > David Megginson wrote: > > > Let's assume, then, that XML parsing occupies 10% of your > > application's overhead. Even if you could build a parser that is > > 1000% faster, you'd still gain only 9% in actual execution speed. Which, by the by, is a fairly common tradeoff in distributed systems ... except that parsing data generally takes a lot LESS than 10% of the application overhead. I can't see XML changing that equation a heck of a lot. Also, in the big picture, execution speed is not the only important factor in system development. It's often important to have the system done twice as fast (a number of studies have shown that Java programmers are twice as productive as C/C++ ones), or be more stable when it's been declared "feature complete" (e.g. no pointer smashes). > The state of the art for > Java may change in the future as soon as other players like HP, Novell and > IBM bring to the table their own technology and that Java would finally have > the same competitive environment as other languages have. And Sun, too. One should also keep in mind that C based systems have been evolving for 20+ years at this point, vs a lot less for Java. - Dave xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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