I'm not familiar with that library. I guess the big question is how much of a performance gain could we expect given the work that would entail. Maybe some of the more costly parsing steps could be ported to lxml and tested to measure the potential.
Jeff On Aug 31, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Stefane Fermigier wrote: > Hi, > > We've used cmislib for some intensive work against the Nuxeo server, and it > appears that the bottleneck when using similarly sized machines for the > server and the client is the client. > > (This due to Python being generally one order of magnitude slower than Java, > and CPython having a hard time utilize the multiple available cores, due to > the GIL). > > Running cmislib under PyPy helps a bit (x2) but it's not enough. > > One way to gain a bit more performance could be to replace minidom (based on > expat) by lxml (based on libxml2) in cmislib2. > > This would introduce another dependency (minidom is in the Python standard > distribution, not lxml), and needs some (tedious) work because the API are > difference. > > What do you think. Jeff (and others) ? > > S. > > -- > Stefane Fermigier, Founder and Chairman, Nuxeo > Open Source, Java EE based, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) > http://www.nuxeo.com/ - +33 1 40 33 79 87 - http://twitter.com/sfermigier > Join the Nuxeo Group on LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/groups?gid=43314 > New Nuxeo release: http://nuxeo.com/dm54 > "There's no such thing as can't. You always have a choice." >
