Can XML-RPC performance be improved?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Sion Arrowsmith wrote:

> I've got an established client-server application here where there
> is now a need to shovel huge amounts of data (structured as lists of
> lists) between the two, and the performance bottleneck has become
> the amount of time spent parsing XML (it's taking 100% CPU on one or
> other end of the connection and accounting for well over 50% of the
> total call time, to the extent that it's having a greater impact on
> performance than user interaction). And this is using SGMLOP for
> parsing -- I dread to think what it would be like with a slower
> parser. Anyone (Fredrik?) got any good ideas for tackling this
> problem?

CORBA. Or TCP/IP directly. I know that isn't really the answer you're
looking for - but there is an overhead parsing XML, and that can't go away.
>From what I read at SGMLOP's site I doub't that you can get much faster -
because speed comes with sacrificing standard compliancy, which it already
seems to do.

Regards,

Diez