Re: [xml] Character reference encoding is slow

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 12:35:39PM +0200, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> 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!

  Except i should never do this kind of things on the day of a release,
i had ran the python regression tests on Friday, but not on Saturday
and the change crashes the serialization code for python :-(

> > Grab 2.7.0 !
>
> I definitely will, and I'll make sure lxml supports it as well as 2.6.

  Well i guess 2.7.1 is due imminently, probably tomorrow

> Thank you for the work you put into libxml2!

  I also sometime have the feeling I'm loosing a lot of time on it,
so thanks are welcome ! thank you !

Daniel

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