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I have sketched out an algorithm for fast XML WF parsing utilising two threads that each start at opposite ends of the octet-stream and meet in the middle. The algorithm hinges on the fact that start- and end-tags are balanced. i.e. as one thread reads forward looking for foo start-tag, the other thread is reading backwards looking for foo end-tag. This also has the nice side effect of giving you accurate error messages quickly. i.e. as soon as a mismatched tag is found, it can be reported. This is particularly useful with recursive element types. Modern machines (even desktop boxes) will increasingly have multi-core CPUs as standard and I think it behooves us to find ways of exploiting that in the XML world. But to get the most out of the algorithm, you really need a filesystem that supports reading byte-streams backwards. Does anyone know of such a filesystem? thanks, Sean
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