Re: [xml-dev] I processed a 3GB XML file ... using XSLT streaming

[Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@gmail.com>]

> The point of streaming is (of course) being able to do such things
> without using much memory, even if it's slower. Not everyone has 96G, or
> even 16G of memory available... :-)


Absolutely true.

Also, there could be cases when the XML data is generated in real time
continuously and non-stop,  and must be processed again in real time.
In such scenarios even terabytes of RAM wouldn't help.


Cheers,
Dimitre

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 20:53 +0200, Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt wrote:
>> I did give your non-streaming stylesheet (B) a try (A).
>> Slight modifications were necessary to get back to XSLT 1.0
>> (eq -> = , doc -> document).
>> 16GB of memory were used (17851470K-1067694K), (D).
>
> The point of streaming is (of course) being able to do such things
> without using much memory, even if it's slower. Not everyone has 96G, or
> even 16G of memory available... :-)
>
> Liam
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