[mercury-users] Sluggish XML parsing

[Michael Day]

> The reason that compiling is so slow is that the production for `letter'
> works on Unicodes rather than just chars, so the production looks something
> like:

Hmm yes I saw that, but xml.parse.chars seemed to compile faster than
xml.parse, which was the real problem. (Generated a C file that took gcc
200+ Mbs of RAM and several hours to compile, too...)

Any idea about the runtime performance issues?

(Merry Christmas, to all subscribers of this list. May your days be full
of turkey and other appropriate cliches).

Michael


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