I've got a chunk of code that can operate one of two ways:

Snippet of the code (%contacts has values of a XML::LibXML::Node for each contact). 

# other code to retrieve the documents into %contacts
foreach my $id ( keys %$contacts ) {
    my $entry = $contacts->{$id};
    my $xml = $entry->toStringC14N();
}

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Retrieve a large number of small XML documents (with say 100 nodes each) - this is slow, as it has lots of separate web requests to retrieve the content

or

Retrieve a small number of large XML documents (with say 10k-25k nodes each) - this is fast, can retrieve almost all of the content in one or two requests.

Only difference between the two loops is that the nodes in %contacts are either from 1-2 XML::LibXML::Document's, or are from 100+ documents.) Both end up with the same total set of data.

Problem is, when I use the 'large xml document' approach, each toStringC14N() call on is very slow. (1-2/sec)

If I use the small chunk approach, retrieving the data takes a lot longer, but the processing of the nodes runs in the 100-200/sec range or higher.

Is there anything I can do to speed things up when using the large document retrieval, or do I have to just pick a balance between the two extremes?

In reply to How to speed up XML::LibXML toStringC14N - when used on large document? by nneul

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