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List:       xml-dev
Subject:    [xml-dev] Do long element names impact performance?
From:       "Costello, Roger L." <costello () mitre ! org>
Date:       2015-10-15 13:43:10
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Hi Folks,

Is the following true or false? 

	XML developers who fail to grasp the distinction between reading and evaluating 
	an XML instance document may have a good model of the structure of XML, 
	but they usually have a terrible model of the efficiency of processing XML. One 
	XML developer used only one-letter element names, because he felt that it would 
	be faster for the computer to look up one-letter elements than a multi-letter name. 
	While it may be true that shorter names can save a microsecond at read time, this 
	makes no difference at all at evaluation time. Every element, regardless of its name, 
	is just a memory location, and the time to access the location does not depend on the 
	name of the element.

/Roger

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