RE: [xml-dev] XML Performance in a Transacation

["Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>]

> My expectation is that XML parsing can be significantly sped up with ...

I think that UTF-8 decoding is often the bottleneck and the obvious way to
speed that up is to write the whole thing in assembler. I suspect the only
way of getting a significant improvement (i.e. more than a doubling) in
parser speed is to get closer to the hardware. I'm surprised no-one has done
it. Perhaps no-one knows how to write assembler any more (or perhaps, like
me, they just don't enjoy it).

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/