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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