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Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Do long element names impact performance?
From: Michael Kay <mike () saxonica ! com>
Date: 2015-10-15 14:03:48
Message-ID: 010F95E5-A445-43ED-BF69-EA2299861A8B () saxonica ! com
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Are you asking us to do the measurements for you, or are you asking us to guess?
Michael Kay
Saxonica
> On 15 Oct 2015, at 14:43, Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org> wrote:
>
> 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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