My gut feeling says binary XML must be faster, as Eran said both parsing and writing should be faster. (otherwise all those people justifying binary protocols are in serious trouble ).
One simple test is to do a performance evaluation of XML reading and writing using fast infoset and a conventional xml parser. I believe there is a OM perf test case , we should be able to switch to fast infoset stax implementation and run that test case to compare the results. However another possibility is for smaller documents SOAP container overhead take over and no real difference can be seen. Thanks Srinath On 9/29/07, Eran Chinthaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sanjaya Karunasena wrote: > > > > The advantage it should have over gzip is the fact that FI parsers > > read/write > > the XML in its binary format. > > Fast infoset has only two advantages, IIUC. It must have better > performance it terms of reading and writing and also it should be > smaller in size to the XML the that it represents. > > Even though gzip compresses data, what it gives to the application is an > XML. There won't be an advantage over gzip in-terms of compression when > we use binary xml, but binary xml should perform better when it is > serializing and de-serializing. Being them in binary format has no > advantage except some one being not able to see them in a text editor. > > If what Dennis claims is true (binary xml is slow in Axis2) in his > earlier mail, then we have a serious problem of using fast infoset. > Either our implementation is not correct (I don't think so) or fast > infoset readers and writers are slow. > > Thanks, > Eran Chinthaka > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFG/vExjON2uBzUhh8RAhhkAKCS7ton+Z7JQGJ3XXS1hQLH93flpgCgsEes > bbhuMCW6KRHM/YdXYLwjyog= > =inc8 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- ============================ Srinath Perera: Indiana University, Bloomington http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~hperera/ http://www.bloglines.com/blog/hemapani Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity -- Plato --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
