Is xmlrpclib slow?

[Gillou]

Its strongly recommanded to install "sgmlop" as indicated in the comments of
xmlrpclib.py.

#
# Notes:
# this version uses the sgmlop XML parser, if installed.  this is
# typically 10-15x faster than using Python's standard XML parser.
#
# you can get the sgmlop distribution from:
#
#    http://www.pythonware.com/madscientist

Hope the future xmlrpclib will use the new PyXML package in place of the
_nearly deprecated_ xmllib.

--Gillou