Am Fre, 2003-02-28 um 17.48 schrieb Hunsberger, Peter: > Pier Fumagalli wrote: > > > > "Hunsberger, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Niclas Hedhman wrote: > > >> > > >> I'm playing with the idea of making an attempt at a SAX hardware > > >> accelerator, just for the heck of it, but won't bother if it is > > >> already in the "ignorable" > > >> magnitude. > > > > > > You mean something like: > > > > > > http://www.datapower.com/products/xa35.html > > > > > > Of course, it doesn't run Cocoon, but if you've really got a heavy > > > duty XSLT load it may be something that you can justify > > wiring up on a > > > custom basis... > > > > Interesting... XSLTC but done native instead of done through > > a JVM... I wonder if they generate straight optimized > > bytecode for the processor directly interpreting the stylesheet... > > > > Pier (old assembly fart) > > > > Any bets it's just a heavily optimized Linux system running a JVM under the > covers? > > A long time ago I was involved with a project trying to find a use for a > highly parallel piece of hardware. I did a conceptual design for an OS > based around directly addressable tree structured data: building such a > beast do just do parsing would be almost trivial. However, adding in XSLT > is a lot more interesting. Part of the conceptual design included > instructions for tree unions, intersections, differences etc. so I can > certainly see how parts of it would be easy. However, I'd really want to > have a general purpose OS feeding the special purpose hardware so that I > wouldn't have to implement stuff like translating character sets and running > a HTTP stack to look up a DTD... > > Peter (was just reminiscing about the old days of coding directly on the > hardware this morning)
how would you use such a tool? If it is designed as network node, which consumes xml, parses it, transforms it and then sends it back somewhere, the question is how much you gain, since the fact that the network bus speed is tremendously slow, compared to bus speeds within a system. It would be interesting to have an active component within a computer, like those server optimized network cards, that takes some computing cycles from the cpu by doing xml/xslt based work - but that is probably hard. and more problems come in when you have to use some kind of custom exstension library... . anyway very interesting read, thanks Niclas, Peter, Pier
