Walter's DConf 2014 Talks - Topics in Finance

[Sean Kelly]

On Sunday, 23 March 2014 at 18:15:16 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>
> At least on Java world it is not quite true.

And that's why I said a language like C/C++ that allows aliasing.


> If you use XML parsers that return a DOM or SAX, yes quite true.
>
> But as far as I can tell, XML streaming parsers (StAX) only 
> parse on demand.

It's been a while since I used it, but the Apache SAX parser 
(Xerces?) converts all string input to wchar_t before passing it 
to the callback.  And since XML input is nearly always in UTF-8, 
this can mean a ton of transcoding.