RE: [xml-dev] Re: Recognizing the contribution of the developers of XML

[Tatu Saloranta <cowtowncoder@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Paul Topping <pault@dessci.com> wrote:

> That's why there's compression. It works a lot
> better than tag
> minimization. For one thing, it compresses the
> content, not just the
> structure. 

And yet from performance perspective, is much less
efficient than tag minimization (or selective
compression using somewhat markup-specific/optimized
schemed); at least if we are talking about general
purpose compression like deflate... at least if one
considers actual throughput -- although it saves 
network bandwidth, comp/decompression is a cpu hog.

Content compression, specifically, often provides no
throughput improvement at all. Name canonicalization
and indexing on the other hand has impact as easy to
implement.

-+ Tatu +-


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