Re: XSLT engine performance

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

> 
>   > I'd also like to see some more realistic tests, such
>  > as transforming smaller documents lots of times (like a dynamic XML web
>  > server might do).
> 
> why do you consider that more `realistic', pray? those of us who
> consider XML and XSLT mere vehicles for transforming gravestone data
> are not so interested in a dynamic web server transforming smaller
> documents lots of times.

My bad wording... I guess my assumption is that most people are using
XML+XSLT for HTML page building, and that most of them will be
investigating some sort of servlet or in-process architecture to do
so. I'm sure there are lots of exceptions to that rule.

Benchmarks are *hard* to produce really valid data. Often the better
benchmark for a lot of people is which XSLT engines conform most closely
to the spec (to which we all know the answer is Saxon, I think). But they
can be interesting nonetheless.

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