[XML-SIG] pyexpat & xmlproc

[uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com]

> Is there any reason why pyexpat (written in C) is slower than xmlproc
> (written in Python)?

I've noticed this too.  My first guess would be that pyexpat requires a lot of 
round-trips from Python to C and back (C back to Python can be expensive).


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