Xavier Morel, 14.12.2011 20:54:
On 2011-12-14, at 20:41 , Stefan Behnel wrote:
I meant: "lack of interest in improving them". It's clear from the
discussion that there are still users and that new code is still being
written that uses MiniDOM. However, I would argue that this cannot
possibly be performance critical code and that it only deals with
somewhat small documents. I say that because MiniDOM is evidently not
suitable for large documents or performance critical applications, so
this is the only explanation I have why the performance problems would
not be obvious in the cases where it is still being used. And if they
do show, it appears to be much more likely that users rewrite their
code using ElementTree or lxml than that they try to fix MiniDOM's
performance issues.
Could also be because "XML is slow (and sucks)" is part of the global
consciousness at this point, and that minidom is slow and verbose
doesn't surprise much.
Possibly, yes. Or that "Python is slow and sucks". But I think there are
good counter arguments against both.
Stefan
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