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Elliotte Rusty Harold writes:
> The problem with this approach is that it's very platform specific,
> as binary approaches have always been. I suspect Sun's approach will
> work well for Java. But will it work well for C? What's the
> performance impact when byte orders need to be flipped when
> deserializing?
I think that James was talking about going from bytes representing a
Unicode character encoding, not a binary encoding. There should be no
platform dependencies in that case.
> I doubt very much Sun can get an order of magnitude improvement on
> all platforms of interest, much less with all documents of
> interest.
In my experience, actual XML parsing generally takes so little time in
a real-world project that optimizing it to zero would still bring no
noticeable gain. The only exception would be something dealing with a
constant, fat stream of XML data in real time (news feeds are too
low-volume to qualify).
All the best,
David
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