On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 12:50:23PM -0500, Ramon F Herrera wrote: > > Hello all: > > I am glad to report that after I replaced my previous XPath code > with libxml2, my application is running faster. In fact, the > qualifier > "Dramatic performance gains" is an *understatement*. This result is > from one of my many test cases: > > Processing with with Xerces + XQilla: 12 minutes > Processing time with libxml: 3 seconds
Heh, thanks for the feedback, but is that really an apple to apple comparison, I'm suspicious ;-) But suffice to hit a quadratic behaviour somewhere on one code path for a bad performance like this. > Additionally, coding under libxml is much easier and straightforward. Considering the near complete lack of documentation and books that's a very good point :-) > Congratulations and thanks to all involved! Thanks ! Just by curiosity, what version of libxml2, is the data large and what platform are you using ? Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
