On Jan 23, 2004, at 10:04 AM, Joshua Allen wrote:
> It's a pretty big hit. XML is all about string comparison. Any
> implementation that cared about perf would presumably atomize strings
> that were subject to frequent comparison.
In genx, the only significant string comparison is checking for dupe
attributes (I think; haven't written the code yet). Since you only
check each one once, the cost of doing an intern() (what I assume you
mean by atomize) is probably higher than just doing the string
comparison. -Tim
