High performance XML parser

[Kagamin]

Tomek Sowiński Wrote:

> One way is the slicing approach mentioned on this NG, notably used by RapidXML. I already contacted Marcin (the author) to ensure that using solutions inspired by his lib is OK with him; it is. But I don't think I'll go this way. One reason is, surprisingly, performance. RapidXML cannot start parsing until the entire document is loaded and ready as a random-access string. Then it's blazingly fast but the time for I/O has already elapsed. Besides, as Marcin himself said, we need a 100% W3C-compliant implementation and RapidXML isn't one.
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> I think a much more fertile approach is to operate on a forward range, perhaps assuming bufferized input. That way I can start parsing as soon as the first buffer gets filled. Not to mention that the end result will use much less memory. Plenty of the XML data stream is indents, spaces, and markup -- there's no reason to copy all this into memory.

Did you measure how much memory is wasted by markup?