Re: Rick Jelliffe's article on XSLT 1.0 performance

On Sun, 2017-02-12 at 14:16 +1100, Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> Thanks Michael. And congrats on Saxon doing so well: Saxon HE being
> just as
> fast or faster than libxslt (ignoring JVM startup time) was one of
> the
> surprise results to me.

On my own Web site (www.fromoldbooks.org) in the few places where I use
a standalone Java query engine, I run it using "nailgun", which keeps a
pool of JVMs started and ready, runs the task on one of them and then
after sending back the result starts another JVM ready for next time.

I often do find Saxon faster than libxslt these days, even including
JVM startup time, and using some XSLT 2 techniques such as "as"
attributes on variables can help widen that gap.

Liam


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