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From: "Mike Champion" <mc@x...> > 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. Oh, so their optimisation is to assume that references will expand to the same (or fewer) characters. I guess one could assume that all element names had 1 character, and then complain about the inability to use this splendid optimization because XML says we can have more than one character in an element name. Cheers Rick Jelliffe
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