Re: [xml] ctxt->token patches

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 04:49:35PM +0200, Peter Jacobi wrote:
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> Hi Daniel,
>
> >   Hum, can you tellwhere this occured ? 
>
> It seems benefical to test for ctxt->token in front
> of a large list of other "else if" conditionals.
>
> I've attached a step-2 patch which removes all remaining 
> ctxt->token uses in parser.c and parserInternals.c (except
> the initializing to 0). htmlparser.c and docbookparser.c will
> be treated in the next patch.

  Okay, applied and commited too !

> This second patch eats about 60% of the performance gains
> of the first, but I fully agree that's nonsense to leave voodoo
> statements in the code.

  Well, there must be a good reason why the compiler
was generating better code when having extra NOP operations
to do. Problem is that it's not associated to the semantic of the
language :-\

> To proceed further in performance enhancement I need to
> do better profiling and perhaps look for more intrusive
> changes in the parser.

  Yup, and again thanks a lot for your work on this !!!

Daniel

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