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Re: XML Memory Requirements (was Re: Feeling good about SML)

  • From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
  • To: David Megginson <david@m...>, <xml-dev@i...>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 16:25:00 -0800

sml binary tree
At 05:55 PM 11/17/99 -0500, David Megginson wrote:
>Again, the big problem in creating a tiny XML processor is the
>required error reporting for illegal characters in names, attribute
>values, etc. -- if you build lookup tables, you're looking at an
>enormous amount of memory for each table.

Actually, it's not so bad as all that.   The trick is this: there are 
only a few interesting states, of which you're in one of these 3 most of
the time:

 - processing character data
 - processing a name (e.g. element type or attribute name)
 - processing the first character of a name

For the first, can check the small number of excluded regions with
an if statement.

For the others, you have a (relatively) small array of pairs of 
numbers being the low-high edges of legal ranges, then you binary-search
them.  In Lark, the class that does all the work is only 3.5K (the
arrays are compressed in the class file, so maybe 10* times in memory).

The performance is good enough that in Lark, the limiting factor was
my lousy input buffering, not the character class checking; and Lark
was always in the top half of the performance table. -Tim

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