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Re: Refreshed genx.h, plus some plans


genx xerces
At 10:19 AM -0800 1/24/04, Tim Bray wrote:

>It dawned on me that with all the checking and so on, genx might not 
>be as fast as it could possibly be.  The way to fix this is obvious, 
>but it might amount to premature optimization.  The idea is that you 
>predeclare your elements and attributes and get handles to them, so 
>that they only need to be namechecked and sorted once.

Definitely premature. It's possible to optimize the hell out of 
verification to the point where the I/O cost is much larger. Xerces 
does a very nice job of this, mostly by using table lookup, and XOM 
has further improved on those techniques by short circuiting some 
common ASCII cases and generating the tables at compile time rather 
than runtime. I'm not convinced this is as fast as verification can 
get yet either. Don't worry abut the cost of verification until 
profiling proves it's an issue, you've optimized the verification 
code, and it still prove to be the bottleneck.
-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
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   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA

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