Ouups, forgot the links to java lobby post :
http://www.javalobby.org/servlet/News?action=displayStories&xsl=commen
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Seb

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sebastien Sahuc 
> Sent: vendredi 3 décembre 1999 15:59
> To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: SAXON 5.0 is available
> 
> 
> Michael Kay wrote :
> > I still hope to get the compiler finished, though my enthusiasm 
> > has been a little diminished by early performance results: 
> there's no 
> > point shipping it unless it runs significantly faster than the 
> > terpreter. 
> 
> What is 'significantly faster' ? Is it at least 2x faster ? 
> Indeed, with Saxon 4.5, I made some test and the compiled 
> style sheet appeared to compute exactly twice as fast as the 
> interpreted version, so seems to be worth enough. The style 
> sheet I took as example was one you provide with SAXON 'book.xsl'.
> 
> I strongly believe that compiled style sheet can blast server 
> side processing. On this subject, may I ask you to read an 
> excellent comment from Ray Cromwell posted in Java Lobby (if 
> you haven't yet). Indeed he's raiseing some good question 
> around scalability of XSL processing.
> 
> Anyway thank for your hard work, it's really valuable for the 
> XSL community.
> 
> Sebastien
> 
> 
> > 
> > Mike Kay 
> > 
> > 
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