Re: [xml] too many mallocs?

[Igor Zlatkovic <igor stud fh-frankfurt de>]

Hi there.

> I didn't want to be negative, or criticize for
> its own sake.

Don't worry, you were not taken as a critic, at least not by me.

> On a rather mediocre WNT system, my xmllint needs
> 260ms per iteration (Igor's MSFT version needs 410ms,
> at least I can outperform this!). Of these 260ms, over
> 100ms are spent in malloc and free, and another large
> part in related activities (_stos amd xmlStrndup).

Well, my version and its oddities go onto Microsoft's account, for their
tools produced the binary :-) And they have excused themselves. Recently
xsltproc trashed because I failed detecting a pointer to garbage and a
dialog box came up saying that Microsoft is sorry for the incenvenience :-)

> Parsing the libxml2 API document (490k) is slower, showing
> that attributes are more expensive than elements, using 400ms
> (690ms) with about the same absolute time spent in malloc
> and friends.

Do your watcom-produced binaries need a special C-runtime? If not, can you
send me those somehow?

Ciao
Igor