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Re: "Binary XML" proposals
- From: Al Snell <alaric@alaric-snell.com>
- To: Christian Nentwich <c.nentwich@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:54:30 +0100 (BST)
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Christian Nentwich wrote:
> But isn't also true that you do not have to do this with a proper binary
> format, and are therefore accessing fewer characters, in which case your
> code will be faster? Probably not by a huge amount but it should be
> faster.
It definitely should be faster. The difference was probably due to levels
of tuning. Oleg's parser might have used regular expressions as opposed to
a hand-tuned parsing state machine, for example; implementing and
maintaining the latter isn't much fun :-(
>
> Christian
>
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