With the increasing prevalence of web services (not that they are always a
good thing), I doubt that parsing XML will be something that will remain at
the Java application layer for long... Recent threads here on Fork
indicating the move towards hardware parsing or this code even become part
of the native implementation of Java on various platforms...
Reza B'Far
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From: fork-admin@xent.com [mailto:fork-admin@xent.com]On Behalf Of Adam
L. Beberg
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 9:01 PM
To: Mr. FoRK
Cc: fork@example.com
Subject: Re: Java is for kiddies
On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Mr. FoRK wrote:
> > 6.  Hardware is getting so fast that I'm not sure if the performance
> > difference between Java and C/C++ are relevant any more.
>
> When out-of-the-box parsing & transform of XML in java is 25x slower than
> C++ on the same hardware then it does matter.
Yea, and that on top of the 100x of all the parsing engines over just
bigendian'ing it and passing the data (5x+++) in the raw. Then it REALLY
matters.
- Adam L. "Duncan" Beberg
http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/
beberg@mithral.com

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