[Python-Dev] Integrating Expat

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
> 
>     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.

I see. 

Rereading your numbers suggests that only dumps got slower. Now that
you've fixed this in CVS the reason is obvious... from xyz import abc
is slow. OTOH, Fredrik mentions that he put in this change in order
to decrease startup time for the lib. I guess you can't win 'em all :-)
 
>     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.

Cool !

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