Re: [xml] libxml2 very slow on big data dump

["Stefan Behnel" <stefan_ml behnel de>]

Hi,

Alexandre Macard wrote:
> I try dump a node from a big xml (near 7mo), and the libxml2 is very
> slow to respond.
>
> I tried to trace the problem and it seems to take all it's time into the
> function: xmlOutputBufferWriteEscape.
> I do not need to escape data because I use a base64 encoding.

You didn't write which version of libxml2 you are using, but there was a
bug in an older version that could lead to horrible performance when
serialising character entities.

Try upgrading your library.

Stefan