Zero-copy abstractions

[Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org>]

Hi Folks,

Minimizing the movement of characters is very relevant to people implementing networking software and also those doing hardware accelerators and their device drivers.

These people spend a lot of time worrying about zero-copy abstractions, i.e. how to avoid moving data around. The less the data moves, the faster throughput they get with less energy usage and usually with less hardware too.

Are there use cases where it is important to minimize the movement of characters in XML documents?

/Roger