Randomthots wrote:
This is interesting: why do you think the limit is intrinsic in the
*format*, rather than a bug in the *current* version of OO.o (= *one* of
the many applications that could and will support ODF)? Please explain
Daniel Carrera and I went round and round about this just recently.
Yes, I remember you constructed a strawman and an irrelevant comparison.
You tried to claim that making the tags smaller would speed up the
application and supported your claim using CSV files :P
Daniel just dismisses it with hand-waving about XML
parsing being inefficient.
No actually. If you are going to make the silly claim that the *size* of
the XML *tag* is a bottle neck, the burden is on you to prove that
assertion. I proceeded to explain that there were several possible
explanations for the performance problems which seemed a lot more likely
than the size of the XML tag. Parsing XML was one example. Others
included the design of the application, and the ZIP/UNZIP process.
I suspect that, if nothing else, the sheer size of XML files has an
impact with regards to memory usage.
But you present no evidence to support your claim. On the other hand, I
provided a calculation. I started with the speed of a typical IDE drive,
calculated the size decrease for a reasonably standard 50-page document
removing the XML tags in question, and showed that at most you could
expect a 0.14s speed increase. And you feel this was hand-wavy? Please
show me a less "hand-wavy" calculation to support your claim that the
size of the XML tag is a limiting factor.
Cheers,
Daniel.
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