Walter's DConf 2014 Talks - Topics in Finance

Paulo Pinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Mon Mar 24 00:16:46 PDT 2014


On Monday, 24 March 2014 at 05:41:38 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
> 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.

Ah Xerces! Last time I looked into it was around 2003.

I doubt it has any optimizations of modern XML parsers looking
how little the web site has changed since then.

--
Paulo


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