Kevin Flynn wrote: > > I got a mail today telling me that Altova are now giving away their XML > content editor "Authentic". XmlSpy is supposed to be the market leader, so I > thought it must be worth a look, and I did a little informal benchmark to > compare it with XXE, using the sample docbook document they include in the > download. > > Here are the results of the test, performed on my Pentium 3 600mhz laptop, > with 256 k memory, running Win2K: > > authentic: > start-up 5 seconds > load 58 seconds > insert new para 5 seconds > undo insertion 6 seconds > > xxe: > start-up 10 seconds > load 12 seconds > insert new para 0 seconds > undo insertion 0 seconds > > The new paragraph insertion was performed at the same point (near the top of > the document) in both tests. > > Java-based or not, XXE has world-beating performance.
Thanks for the compliments. Note that with Java, first execution of a piece of code includes the ``just-in time'' compilation of this code. Therefore, loading your first DocBook document into XXE is much slower than loading a second DocBook document. We are also very impatient to see the XML editor added by Microsoft to Office 2003.
