[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Do long element names impact performance?
Are you asking us to do the measurements for you, or are you asking us to guess? Michael Kay Saxonica > On 15 Oct 2015, at 14:43, Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org> wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > Is the following true or false? > > XML developers who fail to grasp the distinction between reading and evaluating > an XML instance document may have a good model of the structure of XML, > but they usually have a terrible model of the efficiency of processing XML. One > XML developer used only one-letter element names, because he felt that it would > be faster for the computer to look up one-letter elements than a multi-letter name. > While it may be true that shorter names can save a microsecond at read time, this > makes no difference at all at evaluation time. Every element, regardless of its name, > is just a memory location, and the time to access the location does not depend on the > name of the element. > > /Roger > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php
[Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] |
PURCHASE STYLUS STUDIO ONLINE TODAY!Purchasing Stylus Studio from our online shop is Easy, Secure and Value Priced! Download The World's Best XML IDE!Accelerate XML development with our award-winning XML IDE - Download a free trial today! Subscribe in XML format
|