From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-11-04T09:40:25+09:00
Subject: Re: REXML ... performance & memory usage ...

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Jeff Wood wrote:
> Wow ... I am trying to use REXML to parse through an 8.8Mb xml file ...=

> it currently eats almost 800Mb of ram before it seems to do anything ..=
=2E
>=20

At that file size, I'd also slightly start thinking of biting into the
bitter pill and using stream / pull parsing instead of tree parsing.
Even with using a C parser a DOM buildup is not going to do much good
for performance if you need to to processing at that scale more than
seldom. But then again, there's the premature optimization quote that
says to wait with that just yet.

David Vallner


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