Am Sonntag, den 25.11.2007, 21:32 -0500 schrieb Sam Carleton: > In > the rewrite, I am considering caching the data in these files and > reading them only if they are changed. The question though is: > Considering how small these files are, will the performance gains be > worth the extra development time?
No. A decent operating system will keep the files in memory unless they are changed anyway. You could have the same performance gain with a 100 $s worth of CPU or a faster disk. In addition all extra code reduces reliability no matter how good it is. > Another option would be to switch > from using libxml2 to expat for the XML parsing. Depends. libxml2 has much more functionality, especially a DOM implementation. If you are only doing SAX, expat may be an option. I doubt however that it will give you a speed gain. Sincerely, Joachim
