in reply to Naive idea : using XSH with WWW::Mechanize::Firefox, to make faster XPath queries ?

No, adding another html/xml parser, on top of mozilla/gecko, will only slow things down, and increase memory usage

XSH derives its speed from using libxml, a c library, and avoiding creating elements in perl

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Re^2: Naive idea : using XSH with WWW::Mechanize::Firefox, to make faster XPath queries ?
by mascip (Pilgrim) on Feb 06, 2012 at 11:29 UTC

    Understood, thank you !
    I guess this node could be deleted, then.