Why is xml.dom.minidom so slow?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters wrote:
> PyExpat is pretty darn fast.  I would be quite surprised if you could do
> several times better with a custom C++ parser.

moving the tree building from Python to C++ can easily buy you 10x,
no matter what parser you're using.

(if you think otherwise, you're seriously underestimating the cost of a
C++ -> Python call...)

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