Re: [xml] xmlNewChild(...) slow in version 2.6.16-7 (debian sarge)

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 11:07:21AM +0200, Dominik Raddatz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the following statement seems somewhat slow:
>
> xmlNodePtr myNode;
> xmlChar *myText;
> ...
> xmlNewChild(myNode, NULL, BAD_CAST "description", BAD_CAST myText);
>
> takes about 25 ms when myText is 50kB; profiling suggests it wastes much time 
> using "xmlStrlen()".
>
> the comparable statements
>
> xmlNodePtr newNode=xmlNewChild(myNode, NULL, BAD_CAST "description", NULL);
> xmlNodeAddContent(newNode, BAD_CAST myText);
>
> are much faster, using less than 1 ms with the same text.
>
> I haven't found any hint about whether this was a known problem and has been 
> fixed in later versions.

  it's not comparable as far as I can tell.
The first one will scan (in xmlStringGetNodeList) for entities or
character references (maybe that can be optimized), and the later just
adds the string content as is as a text node value (via xmlNodeAddContentLen)

Daniel

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