> it is compiled with VC++ 6, under Windows 2000. I use it as-is to parse > a pretty big XML file (understand, 2MB file), which is on my hard drive.
> The fact is, when I run it on my dev PC, on which I have compiled it, it > takes really long to run. It is a Pentium III 800, with 384MB of RAM > (SDRAM). It takes about 30s to parse the file (the time needed to > initialize the parser is neglectable, under 70ms). I tried to see if the > hard drive had an influence, by placing the file on a distant server on > the LAN, without any visible effect on the running time. > I've tried the same executable file on another PC under Windows 2000 > also, which is a more recent Pentium IV at 2.5Ghz, with 1GB of DDR. It > takes... 0.4s to parse the same file. Which is much more what I was > expecting. I am just guessing, but I'd rather think, that this speed increase has more to do with available RAM-Size than it has to do with processor speed. This sounds pretty interesting. Did you try to parse different sizes of XML-documents, like doubling and halfing the size several times? (trying with a 1MB-file on both PCs, a 500 KB, a 250KB and then 4 MB, 16MB, 32MB?) Did you make sure this is no problem with the memory or the file cache? Just ideas, I really don't know, what the influences are here, but I try to be helpful... I would be interested in your results, best regards, Denny --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
