RE: [xsl] hardware xml / xslt

["bryan" <bry at itnisk dot com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
[mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com] On Behalf Of Robert
Koberg
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 2:04 PM
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Subject: RE: [xsl] hardware xml / xslt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Michael Kay
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 2:31 AM
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: RE: [xsl] hardware xml / xslt
>
>
> > I don't know, I recently saw some benchmarks for xalan(c++
> > version) running against large(10+ mb) xml files and it
> > performed worst out of the processors involved, msxml
> > performed best(can't remember where I read this). I suppose
> > one reason for datapower's product would be that it handles
> > large xml files quickly, in that context and if xalan indeed
> > does perform poorly against large files it does not seem to
> > be a good comparison.
> >
> Hey, you wouldn't expect them to compare themselves against the *best*
> of the competition, would you? This is a US software company, after
all,
> not a team of gentleman cricket players.


>Who is the fastest, Mike? Caucho's Resin? libxml/xsl? It is not Saxon.
Who >do
>you think they should use?

Since Mike was replying to my post I'll jump in here real quick; as what
I wrote included the line msxml performed best in this admittedly
cursorily perused benchmark, insofar as very large files were concerned,
it would seem the logical one to compare against would be msxml in the
context of my post. This would also be the *best* implied by Mike's
post.

> I
>don't need to hear US-bashing on this list too.

I would have interpreted the only line from Mike's post with US in it '
This is a US software company, after all,
not a team of gentleman cricket players ' as not anti US, at worst
anti-US software companys but considering the comparison with a team of
gentleman cricket players which to my mind struck a ludicrous image in
the context of business, even a rather effete image to my mind but then
I have never understood the appeal of the sport, it seemed tongue in
cheek; more like 'this is business, not cricket here'. 




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