Re: xmls 0.2 released

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 13:06, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
> On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 09:36 PM, Miles Egan wrote:
> 
> > The big speed win was figuring out a way to handle cdata sections
> > without more than one character of lookahead.  Getting rid of the
> > userspace lookahead buffer and going back to read-char / unread-char
> > accounts for almost all of the speedup.  It's now roughly as fast as
> > your library in my tests.

> The test files are a bit too small for decent speed tests. I think it 
> is indeed safe to say that they are in the same league (mine doesn't do 
> namespaces though, but there are none used in the test files).
> 
> You do however cons a lot more - if you could find the big offenders 
> there, you'll gain speed as well.

Thanks for the tip.  I'll look into that.

I wonder if we could somehow pool our efforts?  The free lisp world
probably doesn't need two lightweight xml parsers.  I like your
event/dom api better than my everything-in-ram approach.  I do need
namespace and cdata support to do soap or beep, though.

I've noticed you're using the same xml tag as keyword approach that
Franz' parser uses.  I like this approach overall.  Does it create any
gc issues?  If a long-running parser parses a wide variety of documents
with different tags will it eventually exhaust memory with all the new
keyword symbols?

-- 
Miles Egan <[email protected]>

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