Re: [xml] Binary serialization/deserialization of xmlDocPtr?

[Dr Robert Sanderson <azaroth liverpool ac uk>]

> What makes you think saving to a binary and loading from a binary would gain
> much efficiency. Right now parsing an in-memory XML string with libxml2 is
> close to 2 times faster than trying to copy the same preparsed xmlDocPtr
> subtree.

I can achieve 3x efficiency in loading raw data from disk compared to 
parsing the document by storing raw SAX events to a BerkeleyDB.  The gain 
for small records is zero, but for 1 megabyte plus records the savings 
become significant.

Note that this isn't the DocPtr tree, I'm not debating that! :)

-- Rob

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