From: Robert Klemme Date: 2008-03-30T20:00:06+09:00 Subject: Re: rexml to slow On 29.03.2008 08:46, Bu Mihai wrote: > I have an xml file and sometimes i call the find_first_recursive method; > when my xml file is small its working fine but when i have ~900 lines im > waiting ~15 seconds to return me the wanted node and i want something > faster; How can i obtain a better time? What's the find criteria you use? Maybe you can use XPath. 900 lines does not really sound large so I suspect there might be an algorithmic or design error. Kind regards robert