Re: [xml] sharing

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 12:01:17PM +0200, Luca Padovani wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 11:54, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   no, I didn't want to start doing ref counting and having my own
> > string type, and early experiement didn't show a big improvement.
> 
> maybe ref counting is not necessary. If you apply sharing in a uniform
> way you KNOW that tag names and attribute names are all potentially
> shared. You just need to keep a hash table associated to the document
> with the shared strings.

  And when you take a subpart of a document and prune it in another one ?
Doesn't work, big bad mess ...

> I might also miss some point in this reasoning that could make this
> approach unfeasible...

  yes, that the toolkit is editing oriented !

Daniel

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