Re: [xslt] Isn't it time to make libxslt multi-threaded?

[Nick Wellnhofer <wellnhofer aevum de>]

On 26/07/2012 15:46, Дмитрий Грибов wrote:
> I've attached a perl script with core logic before, you must have missed
> it. Here, script is on the dropbox as well
> <https://dl.dropbox.com/u/71178399/Threaded%20XSLT%20transformation.pl> now.
>
> If I understand the nature of XSLT processing it is, on the core logic
> level, traversing over the source three. Nodes may be traversed
> intependently, thanks to XSLT static semi-vatiables. So you (in the pure
> spheric computer) just "fork" a new thread on each child, and parent
> only waits it's return. In fact you are not forking, but giving work to
> threads, but it does not change much.

Yes, due to the functional nature of XSLT, xsl:for-each and 
xsl:apply-templates can be parallelized automatically. It would make for 
an interesting project, but I doubt you'll find someone who wants to 
implement this on top of libxslt. I think that most users of libxslt 
don't need lower latency for processing of a single stylesheet.

You wrote that you process "a huge and dedicated xml". Do you by chance 
load a large XML file with the "document" function? That's the only 
situation where I ran into performance problems in the past, because the 
parsed XML file won't be cached across transformations.

Nick