XML Benchmarks in D

[Alexander Panek]

Koroskin Denis wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:40:20 +0300, Alexander Panek 
> <alexander.panek at brainsware.org> wrote:
>>
>> I've got this strange feeling in my stomach that shouts out "WTF?!" 
>> when I read about >3-4GB XML files. I know, it's about the "if" and 
>> "whens", but still; if you find yourself needing such a beast of an 
>> XML file, you might possibly think of other forms of data structuring 
>> (a database, perhaps?).
> 
> It sounds strange, but even large companies like Google or Yahoo store 
> their temporary search indexes in ULTRA large XML files, and many of 
> them can easily be tens or even hundreds of GBs in size (just ordinary 
> daily index) before they get "repacked" into compacter format.

That does, indeed, sound strange. :X