Re: [xslt] text output method performance

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 08:31:23PM +0200, Stéphane Bidoul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It seems that libxslt performance degrades pathologically
> with output size when using the text output method.
> 
> A run of my test case through the profiler shows that
> 95+% of the time is spent in xmlStrlen
> (called from xmlStrncat and xmlNodeAddContent).
> 
> I understand that libxslt builds one big text node in such case,
> which explains the performance behaviour.
> 
> What would be possible tracks to explore in order to improve this
> (provided my diagnostic is correct, of course)?

  very possible, seems one should use a buffer method for this and
it's not done. Should be relatively simple, please post an RFI in
bugzilla,

Daniel

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