Re: [xml] XPath performance issues

[Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml behnel de>]

Stefan Behnel, 04.11.2011 12:39:
> Stefan Behnel, 04.11.2011 11:32:
> > almost exactly two years ago, I brought up the topic of the surprisingly
> > unpredictable XPath performance on this list (thread titled "confusing
> > xpath performance characteristics", without response at the time).
>
> ... likely because the issue is known - here's a thread from 2004 on this
> list that gives some additional details, especially the mail in focus:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.lib.xml.general/7972/focus=8002

Anyone interested in doing or financially supporting this? It is clearly a 
high impact optimisation that can be done with relatively little effort. It 
would improve the XPath performance by orders of magnitude for many 
relevant cases.

Stefan