Re: [xml] Character reference encoding is slow

[Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml behnel de>]

Salut Daniel!

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> [loads of interesting results from the analysis of a pathological case]
>   Anyway to make a long story short, I spent a few hours today
> fixing the problem by adding support for a new kind of buffers avoiding
> most of the memmoves needed when handling an encoding conversion
> exception like those. Bill reported that your test now parses and
> save in more or less the same time i.e. 7secs on one of his boxes.

Very cool, that sounds like a very good solution indeed!


> Grab 2.7.0 !

I definitely will, and I'll make sure lxml supports it as well as 2.6.

Thank you for the work you put into libxml2!

Stefan