High performance XML parser

Tomek Sowiński just at ask.me
Fri Feb 4 13:47:26 PST 2011


Michel Fortin napisał:

> I agree it's important, especially when receiving XML over the network, 
> but I also think it's important to be able to be able to support 
> slicing. Imagine all the memory you could save by just making slices of 
> a memory-mapped file.
> 
> The difficulty is to support both models: the input range model which 
> requires copying the strings and the slicing model where you're just 
> taking slices of a string.

These are valid concerns. Yet, in overwhelming majority XML documents come from hard-drive and network -- these are the places we need to drill. I fear that trying to cover every remote use case will render the library incomprehensible.

-- 
Tomek



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