xquery & web server in browser

[Michael Ludwig]

David A. Lee schrieb:
> [...] I have real world test cases of XQuery which run on a high
> performance XML server "natively" and run 5x slower then the exact
> same XQuery running in the client (on the same machine). So I can
> assert that just because something runs "natively on the server"
> doesn't always mean its faster.

Runs Natively (TM) - to be defined, by the actual implementation.

For example, the implementation may excel at retrieving certain nodes
out of millions of others - but it may not use indexes for sorting,
or may be required to do more work when constructing content.

Exploring the strong and weak spots of the particular implementation
allows you to decide how to best repartition your workload among
available layers, and shift work to server-side or client-side
post-processing. Because it may be more efficient.

It's good to have that flexibility. There is no need to have any
single engine do all the work.

Michael Ludwig