Performance improvement for xml loads (+comments)

[Derek Atkins]

Nobody is suggesting going back to the old binary format.  I'm
certainly not.  I *AM*, however, suggesting a NEW binary format.

-derek

Robert Graham Merkel <rgmerk@mira.net> writes:

> Derek Atkins writes:
>  > 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.
> 
> You certainly can go and compress the old binary format, and it
> shrinks a file down to about 1/3rd the size of what a compressed
> new file looks like.  However, the point remains that the released 
> version isn't going to cause gnucash data files to explode in size -
> in fact for Joe User, the size of their data files is going to go
> down.
> 
> Finally, I'd just like to make the point that while the XML format
> currently has some performance problems, it's here, and it largely
> works, it has features simply not possible to support with the 
> old binary format, and will continue to play an important role as an 
> import/export format when we start to use a database for the backend -
> unlike any new binary format which will be essentially a dead end.
> 
> We can't go back to the old format, and I can't see how ripping out
> the work we've done and starting from scratch is an appropriate use of
> time.
> 
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