Re: XSLT engine performance

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

> What is it with me and Oracle? 
> 
> I just ran a test to see how different XSLT processors coped with
> reading a 3mbyte XML file and going over the tree twice:
> 
>                  real      user       sys
> XT:		0m23.131s 0m19.030s 0m0.510s
> Saxon:		0m35.125s 0m28.900s 0m0.730s
> Sablotron:	0m47.187s 0m39.320s 0m1.300s
> Xalan:		0m55.277s 0m50.540s 0m1.280s
> Oracle:		6m56.811s 1m15.790s 0m10.920s
> 
> the interesting results here are
> 
>  - Oracle has some real problem in working well  for me :-}
>  - Sablotron is slower than Saxon, despite being compiled C++
> 
> bizarrely, Xalan produced the results even though it (rightly) said my
> XML file was not valid against the DTD. Is this to be expected?
> 
> does anyone have reason to doubt the above ranking, apart from the odd
> Oracle result? 

I have no reason to doubt it, but I'd like to see some version numbers
next to everything. 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).

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