Re: [xslt] Benchmarking

[Bjorn Reese <breese mail1 stofanet dk>]

"Heiko W. Rupp" wrote:

> I was playing around with benchmarking libxslt against xalan (C and J) and
> Saxon. While the few tests that I did from www.datapower.com/XSLTMark/
> were much faster on libxslt than on the other processors, heavy
> recursive processing (fibonacci numbers) was fastest on xalan-c
> (17,6s for fib(27) on xalan-c vs 21,7s on xsltproc 1.0.3)

Yes, we know. The XSLTMark test suite was used during development,
and is part of the libxslt distribution (see test/XSLTMark). IIRC,
our goal was to do a good job on benchmarks that really matters. We
did not estimate that recursion was worth spending a lot of effort
on.