RE: switching from xalan (J) to saxon

> I was running both from a java application, and found Saxon to be much
> faster.  I am transforming xml pages that are at times 5 mb.
>  
> Now, I don't know why the transform performance was so much 
> different.

With a 5Mb source file, chances are the difference is caused by memory
usage. I've worked quite hard in Saxon to minimize the memory used by the
tree. With any processor, once the tree size exceeds real memory available,
performance drops dramatically.

Mike Kay
> 


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