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"Peter Rushforth" <peter.rushforth@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Are we likely to see improved performance of XSLT (2!) in the (near) future, > given the declarative nature of the language as a result of threaded > execution of a single stylesheet? Once a system has devoted the > memory resources to parsing an xml document, it would seem a shame to > limit processing of that static structure to one core if many could be > used to speed the processing up. Or does one have to have a language > which syntactically supports multithreading? As you say, xslt is a functional language and so these sorts of things look very possible. I am really interested in the possibilities of lazy evaluation. Lazy evaluation means delaying the computation of things so that you might not need to do it at all. > Given the ability to model just about anything in > XML, XSLT can be used to process just about any kind of data. It is > limited by memory and speed, from what I've seen. Could the speed > factor be addressed by threading ? Yes. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk for all your tapsell ferrier needs
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