Re: [xml-dev] What is more expensive persisting DOM in Memory orcreating DOM

[Robin Berjon <robin@knowscape.com>]

On Friday 28 September 2001 17:33, Haresh Gujarathi wrote:
> What is more expensive in terms of performance for a Web application?
>
> maintaining DOM in memory for use in subsequent requests or
> recreating the DOM every time a request comes in

It depends on the size of the DOM, on whether you can share it in memory 
accross processes/threads, on how much time it takes to recreate it, etc. If 
it's small and shareable (and preferably read-only) then I'd probably leave 
it in memory. But that's just me.

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