On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:36:51 +0000, Bill de hÓra <>
wrote:
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> Sigh, premature optimization.
[Kicking myself for exposing myself to further humliation]
Well, not to touch on yet another permathread, but to the best of my
knowledge as a looker-over-of-shoulders of real implementers, this is not
"premature" -- it's the hard-won knowledge from a lot of profiling that the
buffer management needed by the possibility that some token will be an
entity reference that needs to be expanded is a significant bottleneck in
many implementations.
FWIW, I completely agree (e.g. with Sean) that this is seldom a bottleneck
in applications, but it does seem to be a bottleneck in some industrial-
strength infrastructure implementations. That's a major reason given by
the XMLP people in pushing-back on calls for SOAP to support the full XML
spec.
