Re: [xml] libxml2 very slow on big data dump

["Stefan Behnel" <stefan_ml behnel de>]

Alexandre Macard wrote:
> Stefan Behnel a écrit :
> > Alexandre Macard wrote:
> > > I try dump a node from a big xml (near 7mo), and the libxml2 is very
> > > slow to respond.
> > >
> > > I tried to trace the problem and it seems to take all it's time into
> > > the
> > > function: xmlOutputBufferWriteEscape.
> > > I do not need to escape data because I use a base64 encoding.
> >
> > You didn't write which version of libxml2 you are using, but there was a
> > bug in an older version that could lead to horrible performance when
> > serialising character entities.
> >
> > Try upgrading your library.
>
> Sorry I forgot to precise this information. I am using the last version
> 2.7.2.

So maybe it's a similar bug, but for a different encoding (I think it was
related to the ASCII encoding at the time).

Could you provide the code snippet that you use for serialisation? I.e.
what parameters you pass into what function?

Stefan