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Just the sort of unexpected approach Rick's proposed contest is intended to smoke out! Your reference has convinced me Rick is onto something. Bob Jaakko Kangasharju wrote: > Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@a...> writes: > > >>Last year I think there were reports of good speed ups in parsing in >>Java jsut from re-using SAX objects. (I think the research was >>academic from Eastern Europe, sorry no references.) > > > Do you mean the paper "An Adaptive, Fast and Safe XML Parser Based on > Byte Sequences Memorization" (http://www2005.org/cdrom/docs/p692.pdf) > by Toshiro Takase and others that was at the WWW conference last year? > Their parser caches the SAX events generated from a sequence of bytes > and then replays those events when encountering the same bytes (of > course taking into account context like prefix mappings). They report > speedups of up to 70% compared to Piccolo. >
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