in reply to see XML::LibXML::Reader
in thread processing massive XML files with XML::Twig

Interesting. I have to see if I can see this as an alternate parser for XML::Twig. Or to create a different module alltogether, that combnes the speed of libxml2 with the convenience (IMHO ;--) of XML::Twig.

It would be great if you (or someone else!) could provide code examples for the Ways to Rome" series.

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Re^2: see XML::LibXML::Reader
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 07, 2008 at 21:52 UTC
    Your benchmarking methodology is much less accurate than it could be. You shouldn't be measuring the time it takes to fork a new process and load the modules, and should be measuring multiple runs and averaging the results- ex. timethese(-5, ...).
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      I happen to think that load time is important, and the time to fork should impact all tests similarly.BTW XML::Twig does probably very badly in this respect, so you can't say I am biased.

      As far as I know, no one has ever challenged the "SAX is lightweight and fast" before I published this benchmark. And no one since then has ever come up with any figure that would prove me wrong when I say "SAX is slow".

      Of course my benchmarks are imperfect. Of course I am sure you could do better. Then do it.

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