Re: [xml] Need better XML writing performance

["Pierre Joye" <pierre dev gmail com>]

Hi,

On 7/12/06, Noble, Robert <Robert Noble phlx com> wrote:
> We need to increase performance of our XML data generating application. Our
> app receives (during peak periods) as many as 5,000 binary messages per
> second and converts them to XML using libxml2 and writes them to a file in
> real time. Our environment is Sun Solaris 10.
>
> Profiling shows almost all the time is spent inside libxml2.
>
> For each message we receive, our code looks something like this:
>
>     Receive binary msg
>     xmlBufferCreate()
>     xmlNewTextWriterMemory()

why not using xmlNewTextWriterFilename  if you write the buffer to a
file anyway? It should also use less memory or a more constant amount
of memory.

--Pierre