[Python-Dev] Integrating Expat (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com (Skip Montanaro)
Mon, 1 Oct 2001 13:05:35 -0500 

mal> Hmm, you cannot really compare these numbers though, since the two
mal> runs use two different sets of parsers. Have you checked using
mal> SgmlopParser with the 0.9.8 version of xmlrpclib ?

They are the same parser. I forgot to mention that. What is called "FastParser" in 0.9.8 is called SgmlopParser in the CVS version. That has a different thing called "FastParser". I believe it is the thing you can get by contacting Pythonware.

mal> There's also a project on SF called py-xmlrpc which uses a C
mal> implementation as basis and is said to be much faster than
mal> xmlrpclib (at least that's what they quote on their web-page).

Yes, it is. Amazingly enough, the guy who wrote it (Shilad Sen at Sourcelight Technologies) works in the same building I do (and it's a pretty small building). We had lunch last week and talked a bit about it. It doesn't yet do Unicode. I sent Shilad my little test script. He modified it to use his parser. His results suggest that py-xmlrpc is about as fast as cPickle.

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