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Guess that's what I get for thinking yesterday was "Saturday" :)
Happy New Year, everyone...
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On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 10:58, Jeff Rafter wrote:
> After further reading, I find myself eying the date suspiciously...
> though it doesn't seem too unreasonable...
>
> :)
>
> Cheers,
> Jeff Rafter
>
> Sean McGrath wrote:
> > I have sketched out an algorithm for fast XML WF parsing utilising two
> > threads that each start at opposite ends of the octet-stream and meet in
> > the middle. The algorithm hinges on the fact that start- and end-tags
> > are balanced. i.e. as one thread reads forward looking for foo
> > start-tag, the other thread is reading backwards looking for foo end-tag.
> >
> > This also has the nice side effect of giving you accurate error messages
> > quickly. i.e. as soon as a mismatched tag is found, it can be reported.
> > This is particularly useful with recursive element types.
> >
> > Modern machines (even desktop boxes) will increasingly have multi-core
> > CPUs as standard and I think it behooves us to find ways of exploiting
> > that in the XML world.
> >
> > But to get the most out of the algorithm, you really need a filesystem
> > that supports reading byte-streams backwards.
> >
> > Does anyone know of such a filesystem?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Sean
> >
> >
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