[mercury-users] Sluggish XML parsing

[Tomas By]

Michael Day writes:
> why is the XML parser so slow? On an unloaded pentium 2 it takes several
> seconds to parse even small XML files, which get parsed in a flash by
> other XML parsers. Is it the (excessive?) use of higher order code?

pardon my ignorance, but which parser is this? available where?

if you want to find out if higher order code is the culprit you could
compare with my mercury xml parser:

ftp://ftp.dcs.shef.ac.uk/home/tomas/xml-0.5.zip

please report your findings :-)

/Tomas
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