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Elliotte Rusty Harold writes: > The problem with this approach is that it's very platform specific, > as binary approaches have always been. I suspect Sun's approach will > work well for Java. But will it work well for C? What's the > performance impact when byte orders need to be flipped when > deserializing? I think that James was talking about going from bytes representing a Unicode character encoding, not a binary encoding. There should be no platform dependencies in that case. > I doubt very much Sun can get an order of magnitude improvement on > all platforms of interest, much less with all documents of > interest. In my experience, actual XML parsing generally takes so little time in a real-world project that optimizing it to zero would still bring no noticeable gain. The only exception would be something dealing with a constant, fat stream of XML data in real time (news feeds are too low-volume to qualify). All the best, David
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