Performance improvement for xml loads (+comments)

[Bill Gribble]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 06:38:41PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> The fact that data is being exploded by a factor of 6-10 is just
> unacceptable.

I don't like XML all that much either, but be fair: zlib makes the XML
file format actually SMALLER than the old binary data format, and one
of the main reasons it's not in is because we decided to leave
plain-text for a while as a debugging tool.

Bill Gribble