Actually the index is an optional element in mzXML, too - a proper
mzXML parser will function without it.

- Brian

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:03 AM, [email protected]
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> Was the mzML file indexed or not? This can sometimes make a big difference
> if the program you use accesses the data randomly (or one spectra at a
> time). The mzXML files always have indices, but for mzML they are optional.
> Then the mzML parser must also make use of the indices of course - see
> previous comment.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Magnus
>
> On Thursday, 30 August 2012 17:37:42 UTC+2, Brian Pratt wrote:
>>
>> Quite a lot of performance work was done in pwiz in late 2011 - do you
>> know what version of pwiz is in use?
>>
>> Brian Pratt
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Thomas Dybdal Pedersen
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I've recently begun to investigate whether it was time to change our
>> > pipeline from mxXML to mxML format. Our pipeline is partly based on xcmd
>> > which uses RAMP to read in ms data. I quick comparison of the parsing
>> > speed
>> > between mzML and mzXML showed that mzML was slower by a factor ~7. This
>> > is
>> > quite substantial especially for larger files.
>> >
>> > I understand that the mzML parsing is based on pwiz instead of
>> > implemented
>> > from the ground, which is probably the cause for the difference. Is
>> > there
>> > any effort in creating a more effecient parser for the mzML format as
>> > this
>> > format increase in relevance?
>> >
>> > with best wishes
>> >
>> > Thomas
>> >
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