[Expat-discuss] Parser benchmarks article

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

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

The article is heavily biased toward Java implementations (reflecting a sad 
state of the entire industry), but it did show that the only C implementation 
tested performed much better than the Java implementations for the 
event-based parsing.

The second benchmark measured performance of the StAX parsers, which is a Java 
specification; there are non-Java equivalents (as I understand it), but I 
don't know if there's a C implementation of a similar API.  I pretty much 
ignored that, since I've no interest in Java-based parsers.

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

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.   <fdrake at acm.org>