RE: Beware the count method with Muenchian grouping (w

Daniel Bowen wrote:
>
> > I did some time runs with MSXML 3.0 and Saxon 6.0.2 (with Sun JDK
> > 1.3) on Windows NT 4.0 Workstation with Sp5.

Thanks very much for collecting this data. It reveals that generate-id() in
Saxon, when using the "tinytree" tree model and a large source document, is
extremely (and quite unnecessarily) inefficient. This will be fixed!

A couple of points about the measurements:

- if you were using Instant Saxon, you were using Microsoft Java, not JDK
1.3 as stated. JDK 1.3 is generally 2-3 times faster.

- you can get timings from Saxon by using -t on the command line.

Saxon 6.1 shouldn't make any difference in this area.

Mike Kay


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