On Sep 6, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Marco Leise wrote: > Am 06.09.2011, 22:28 Uhr, schrieb Timon Gehr <timon.g...@gmx.ch>: > >> On 09/06/2011 09:36 PM, notna wrote: >>> Sorry upfront, I didn't read this hole thread, so maybe I'm missing or >>> mixing something... >>> >>> How about a D binding for http://www.xmlsoft.org/ ? >>> >>> In other words, taking the "curl or sqlite3 path", something like >>> /etc/c/xml2 >> >> That is about 4 times slower than the Tango XML parser: >> >> http://dotnot.org/blog/archives/2008/03/10/xml-benchmarks-updated-graphs-with-rapidxml/ > > You are so right, Timon. How deep is the trench between Phobos and Tango > devs? Tango's XML parser should really make it into Phobos.
That will never happen. Though on a positive note, a major reason the Tango parser is so fast because there's no copying or translation of the underlying data. Attributes are passed to the user as-is via a slice of the input range. Most parsers in other languages simply don't work this way.
