Re: [xml] xmlTextReader performance question

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 01:21:19PM -0500, Russell Mok wrote:
> I am switching to the reader API from XPath to improve 
> performance.

  Hum, you compare apples to oranges here I hope you're
aware of that.

> A lot of time is spent on processing a huge 
> list of similar elements. The attributes of each element are 
> what I am after. I notice a significant performance gain 
> when I replace xmlTextReaderGetAttribute to a sequence of
> 
> MoveToAttribute
> GetConstValue
> MoveToElement
> 
> probably because there are very few possible values for the 
> attributes in all my test documents. I understand it is very 
> difficult to answer performance tradeoff questions and that 
> could change in the future. I just hope someone can tell me 
> a bit more what is happening here. Is there a hash/set for 
> these 'const xmlChar *' strings so that allocation and 
> deallocation are minimized?

 depends, for strings coming from markup, yes. For strings
coming fron content, no, because content is not bounded
and we don't want to stick to constant size.

> I have a separate question. Can I save some 
> allocation/deallocation if I use xmlReaderForMemory instead 
> of xmlReaderForFile? I am thinking of memory mapping the 
> whole file.

  I guess that will be lost in the mass of existing allocations
needed for the reader.

Daniel

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