Performance improvement for xml loads (+comments)

[Derek Atkins]

That's still not a fair comparrison.  I can go compress the
old binary format, too.  Let's compare apples to apples here
and leave file compression out of it.

Besides, if you compress the data, you lose random-access into
the file ;)

Seriously, I'm not against having XML import/export, but I don't
think it's a reasonable primary data format.

-derek

grib@gnumatic.com (Bill Gribble) writes:

> 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

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