From: Ross Bamford <rossrt@...>
Date: 2006-11-04T19:22:50+09:00
Subject: Re: REXML ... performance & memory usage ...

On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 09:33 +0900, Jeff Wood wrote:
> Tom Werner wrote:
> > Jeff Wood wrote:
> >> Does anybody have any tips on getting REXML to run faster and/or 
> >> smaller ???
> >>
> >
> > If having a pure ruby parser is not a requirement and you're on *nix, 
> > then you can get great performance out of:
> >
> > http://libxml.rubyforge.org/
> >
> > It uses libxml2 for the parsing, and as such is quite speedy.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
> I had to make two fixes to the source to get things to compile
> 
> ruby_xml_parser.c & ruby_xml_document.c  both needed to have #include 
> "stdargs.h" included ... the compiler wasn't happy about trying to deal 
> with the va_list data type without it.
> 

It's a good job I try to keep up with happenings on ruby-talk :) Thanks
for posting about this - it's fixed in CVS now.

Also, given your input data, you might be interested to know that I'm
currently working on a developmental branch for libxml-ruby 0.4, which
includes a new, faster SAX callback interface (among many other
changes). The branch name is DEV_0_4, and it's getting to be quite
stable now.

Also, we have a mailing list:

	http://rubyforge.org/mail/?group_id=494

Thanks again,
-- 
Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.REMOVE.co.uk