[XML-SIG] parsers and XML

[Fredrik Lundh]

lars marius wrote:
> | g) Relative speeds on my hardware:
> | sgmlop (C module)      4.15
> | pyexpat (C module)     2.60
> | xmlproc (python)       1.21
> | xmllib (python)        1.00
>=20
> Relative speed depends quite a bit on the document being parsed.
> Also, the speed difference when using sgmlop is probably greater when
> you don't use SAX.

fwiw, xmllib is much faster in 1.6b1:

xmllib 1.5.2:   1.00
xmllib 1.6b1:   2.45

(relative speeds)

:::

the SREX shallow parser still outperforms anything
else, of course:

srex   1.6b1: 108.48 (!)

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