RE: [xml] libxml2 memory consumption

["Henke, Markus" <Markus_Henke ordat com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Petr Tomasek [mailto:tomasek etf cuni cz]
> Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 2:59 PM
> To: Henke, Markus
> Subject: Re: [xml] libxml2 memory consumption
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 01:27:31PM +0200, Henke, Markus wrote:
> > Is this the "normal" relation of document size/
> > memory consumption or is something wrong with
>
> Yes it is. You need several variables to be stored for each node.

Well, that's clear. But a ratio of 1:12?
Doesn't it mean that parsing a document using the DOM like API
is impracticable for a document size > ~ 20MB (on a "average"
machine)?
I'd hoped that there is a way to reduce memory consumption...
 
> BTW, Daniel, if I understand it well, each string (e.g. element name) 
> is stored each time. (I mean, let's say you have xml document with
> 10000 times <something/> element, so you have 10000 times "something"
> string in memory). Maybe we could use hash tables while parsing the
> document and leaving literary same strings in one location?
>
> Petr Tomasek
>
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> Petr Tomasek, http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek/

Thanx, Markus