David Hutto, 21.12.2010 09:55:
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
Chris Fuller, 21.12.2010 03:27:
This isn't XML, it's an abomination of XML. Best to not treat it as XML.
Good thing you're only after one class of tags. Here's what I'd do. I'll
give a general solution, but there are two parameters / four cases that
could
make the code simpler, I'll just point them out at the end.
Iterate over the file descriptor, reading in line-by-line. This will be
slow
on a huge file, but probably not so bad if you're only doing it once.
Note that it's not unlikely that this is actually *slower* than using a real
XML parser:
Or a 'real' language like C or C++ maybe to increase, or in Python's
case, bypass, the interpreter?
While this may be a little faster than Python code (although I suspect that
benchmarking is needed to prove either way), I doubt that it's worth the
overhead in code writing. If I can write a couple of lines of Python code
that are easy to validate and almost as fast as C code, why would I want to
write and debug hundreds of lines of code in C or C++, just to see that I
need to tune my benchmark to notice the difference?
But then, people even write XML handling code in Java, where neither
performance nor code size is a suitable argument.
Stefan
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