[Expat-discuss] C compilation flag

[Karl Waclawek]

Jimmy Zhang wrote:
> Can you make the comparison open a bit...
>   
What do you mean with open? The Expat benchmark application is part of
the Expat distribution, open for anyone to inspect.
> we have benchmarked expat extensively,  VTD-XML in general
> leads by a big margin...
> for cases where there are a large number of text, such as RSS file,
> Expat occasionally outperforms VTD-XML, which is quite a feat...
>   

Then show me the Expat benchmarks you have done.
> VTD-XML's fundamental improvements came from its memory 
> allocation strategy:
>
> 1. use large memory blocks... (64k for many VTD records all at once)
> 2. reuse memory blocks ... ( because VTD records are constant in length)
>   

Expat reuses memory a lot. You would be surprised to see how seldom
Expat actually allocates memory.

Regards,

Karl