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On Wednesday 26 February 2003 12:44, David Megginson wrote: > In the past, I've observed that actual XML parsing generally accounts > for under 1% of a batch application's running time (much less, if > you're building a big object tree or doing any database access). That > means that if you speed up the XML parsing by 10%, you might have sped > up your application by less than 0.1% (or realistically, not at all, > if the parser was already idling waiting for data over the network). Bottlenecks are shifty things. Just because the parser isn't taking up much CPU doesn't mean that a binary XML wouldn't make your system faster. If your system is sitting idling waiting for data over the network, then a more compact representation would be a winner! > David ABS -- A city is like a large, complex, rabbit - ARP
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