>Also, offloading [XML processing] to specialty processors does not change
>total CPU usage, and does not improve performance or throughput.
...in a completely unconstrained environment.
>It could change how how much you pay to run it.
Most organizations consider that factor to be important.
>The COMPAT parser is a minimum function parser, and is missing a lot of
>function considered important by XML folks, like NAMESPACE support,
>UTF-8 and UTF-16 support and many other features.
Those are some other important factors for many.
>My standard engines are kneecapped at about half power. Wouldn't
offloading
>the XML processing to a specialty engine allow the XML work to run at full
>speed, therefore improving both performance and throughput?
Most likely yes.
These are moving targets, by the way. XMLSS performance and throughput are
not static. ("I heard from my grandfather that COBOL is slow....") See here
for more information:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/features/xml/gxla1perform.html
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