Maybe for the DocBook stylesheets there is no sense to use compilation with Xalan??
For rather big xml (about 1M) the advantage is 3% (25 and 26 seconds) and for the small xml (10KB) it was same time (4 seconds) to transform xml to the fo.
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>From: Jirka Kosek [mailto:]
>Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 1:41 PM
>To: Tapanainen Mika
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>Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] The compiled Saxon DocBook
>stylesheets doesn't speed anything??
>
>Tapanainen Mika wrote:
>
>> It is only 3% faster to use the compiled stylesheets. So why
>it is possible it is so slow to use the compiled stylesheets?
>
>Saxon stylesheet compilation only improves startup time.
>Stylesheets are
>not compiled into byte-code but into Saxon internal structure. If you
>run compiled stylesheet there is no need to parse and analyze it again,
>but execution speed is same as with normal non-complied stylesheets.
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