Re: [xml] How can libxml2 consume so much memory?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 10:55:57AM +0300, Tuukka Pasanen wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been using newest libxml2 (2.6.19) and this problem work also in
> 2.6.17. Problem is that libxml2 uses so much memory. I one creates XML
> document that contains like 10000 tags and 150 sub tags per parent node
> (see code example) memory usage is like 235 megs (tells top) but rendered
> xml file is only 24 megs.. should this be like this?

  Yes. especially sonce your code doesn't create a dictionnary on
the document and doesn't try to share strings using that dictionnary
like the parser does.

Daniel

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