Re: [Algorithms] Re: XML Parsers

[Stephen J B. <sj...@li...>]

Jorrit Tyberghein wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 07:42:29 -0600, John Ratcliff
> <jra...@in...> wrote:
> 
>>I use TinyXML.  This is a DOM C++ parser and it very easy to drop into your
>>tools chain.  I suppose it could be 'faster' but it seems very stable and is
>>easy to integrate.
> 
> 
> In Crystal Space we use tinyxml too but we modified it heavily to get
> any decent speed with large files. With our modifications we can now
> parse a 25 meg XML file in about 12 seconds (on a P4). Before that it
> was very bad. Biggest problem was huge amounts of memory allocations.
> We solved that by using pools.

So - in the best spirit of OpenSource libraries - have you offered your
changes back to the community?  I'd really like to get a hold of a faster
version.

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