[Expat-discuss] Parser benchmarks article

[Karl Waclawek]

Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> O'Reilly's "XML.com" site just published an article comparing several popular 
> parsers for performance:
>
>   http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/05/09/xml-parser-benchmarks-part-1.html
>
> <snip>
>
> What disappointed me about the article was that only one C implementation was 
> considered, and it wasn't Expat.  I'd love to see a good comparison of Expat 
> with the libxml2 library.
>
>   
Fred,

why don't you add a comment to that article (if you are a member of 
xml.com).
There are 3 year old benchmarks at http://xmlbench.sourceforge.net/.
Expat is somewhat faster than libxml there.

Karl