Re: [xml] How can libxml2 consume so much memory?

["Tuukka Pasanen" <tuukka pasanen ilmi fi>]

> On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 10:55:57AM +0300, Tuukka Pasanen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've been using newest libxml2 (2.6.19) and this problem work also in
> > 2.6.17. Problem is that libxml2 uses so much memory. I one creates XML
> > document that contains like 10000 tags and 150 sub tags per parent node
> > (see code example) memory usage is like 235 megs (tells top) but
> > rendered
> > xml file is only 24 megs.. should this be like this?
>
>   Yes. especially sonce your code doesn't create a dictionnary on
> the document and doesn't try to share strings using that dictionnary
> like the parser does.
>
> Daniel
Aaa.. So I was just stupid:) This is not best documented area in libxml2..
but i'll try to use dictionary and tell if it worked.. it there some hints
or docs about this?

Tuukka