RE: Omnimark vs. XSL (Saxon) Challenge

>
> # >How long does it take, and how does the elapsed time vary as 
> # the table 
> # >size increases? Plotting that can often deepen your understanding of 
> # >what you are asking the XSLT processor to do.
> # 
> # 64 rows: 2 secs
> # 96 rows: 5 secs
> # 128 rows: 10 secs
> # 160 rows: 17 secs
> # 192 rows: 30 secs
> # 224 rows: 62 secs
> # 
> # That is exponential... 
>
> It looks quadratic to me, or perhaps just a little worse than quadratic. If
> it was exponential, you really would have problems.
>
> (Quadratic goes 1,4,9,16,27,64,49,64,81,100. Exponential goes
> 2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512)

t=2+15*2^(r/32-5)

gives

3.875 5.750 9.5 17 32 62
against
2     5     10  17 30 62

that is about 5% deviation for values starting with 10 seconds,

It is exponential dependency.


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