Re: [xslt] libxslt performance problem

["Kaarle Kaila" <kaarle kaila fi>]

This message did leave me a little before I intended.

I did run a test with full report after all.

With libsxlt it used 31 min and 40 seconds in the transformation.
Same transformation with saxo 6.5.5. made it in 3 min 9 sec.

How is this possible?

I hade all the time had the impression that libxslt as a native
C-application must be more effective but this test shows that the
java-interpreter beats it easily .

regards
Kaarle



> hi,
>
> I have been using libxml and libxslt in my MFC (Microsoft VC++6)
> genealogical applications to create reports from the database since 2004.
>
> Only now I needed to create somewhat larger reports than before and I did
> encounter performance problems. I have a database that contains around 
> 25000
> persons that go into 2900 families. There is quite a lot of textual
> information for the persons too.
>
> My application could not create the report in one go so I had to split the
> report into 4 parts 1000 families in 3 parts and the indexes in part 4. To
> create one such report from a memory based dom-tree takes 3 min 30 secs
> using libxslt. My Java test-application could manage the whole report (of
> 2900 familes) but required additional heap space. Where do I specify the
> heap space for libxslt.
>
> I made a comparison using saxon 6.6.5 takes 25 s.
>
> My xslt stylesheets have some libxslt specific (xslt 1.1) elements and do
> not run on all xslt engines. I had heard that saxon would be close on it 
> did
> function in this case. Some of my xslt stylesheets works only with 
> libxslt.
> Seems I have misused some features like the document instruction etc.
>
> I don't remember the version of my libxslt but I built it in the summer
> 2004. It wasn't so easy so I have not retried it.