std.xml2 candidate

[Lutger Blijdestijn]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> On 12/11/10 7:15 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 12/11/10 7:23 AM, Michael Rynn wrote:
>>>
>>> Availability of Updated xml parser for D2,
>>> organised very presumptively as std.xml2
>> [snip]
>>
>> Great! Do you plan to submit this to Phobos?
> 
> One more thing - with XML parsers, I think Tango has definitely set the
> performance bar where it belongs. Any proposal for Phobos would need to
> meet it.
> 
> Andrei

That is considerable. A quick benchmark suggests that a lot of work is 
needed. 

If you take into account that tango's xml parser does less validation and 
that it is up to par with the fastest C++ parsers out there, I suggest 
lowering the bar a little bit at first. For example, outperforming libxml2.