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On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:36:51 +0000, Bill de hÓra <bill.dehora@p...> wrote: > > Sigh, premature optimization. [Kicking myself for exposing myself to further humliation] Well, not to touch on yet another permathread, but to the best of my knowledge as a looker-over-of-shoulders of real implementers, this is not "premature" -- it's the hard-won knowledge from a lot of profiling that the buffer management needed by the possibility that some token will be an entity reference that needs to be expanded is a significant bottleneck in many implementations. FWIW, I completely agree (e.g. with Sean) that this is seldom a bottleneck in applications, but it does seem to be a bottleneck in some industrial- strength infrastructure implementations. That's a major reason given by the XMLP people in pushing-back on calls for SOAP to support the full XML spec.
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