Stefan Behnel wrote: > For minidom, I get about 60MB, where Fredrik got 80MB. That's still about a > factor of 17-23 compared to the serialised XML file, whereas lxml and cET > end up with a factor of 3-5. Your assumption that you can use a system with > 3GB of RAM to parse a 500MB XML file into an in-memory tree can easily turn > wrong for XML files with more tags and shorter text content (say, numbers), > or for documents with non-european languages.
I should add that this was measured on a 32 bit system. 64 bit systems will require even more memory to store the tree, almost twice as much for each element. Stefan _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - XML-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig
