[XML-SIG] RE: [4suite] Great Reason for 4Suite Release delay

[Damien Morton]

Wow! Congratulations on such an amazing speedup.

Id love to hear a summary of the kinds of things done to achieve this
speedup.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 4suite-admin@dollar.fourthought.com
> [mailto:4suite-admin@dollar.fourthought.com]On Behalf Of Uche Ogbuji
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 9:31 PM
> To: 4suite@fourthought.com; xml-sig@python.org
> Subject: [4suite] Great Reason for 4Suite Release delay
>
>
> We were expecting to have 4XSLT 0.9.2, etc. out late last week, but as
> always, our hacking instincts got in the way of the "release early,
> release often" philosophy.  We started optimizing and couldn't stop.
>
> As of now, on several of our benchmark documents, 4XSLT is now 100 times
> faster than release 0.9.1.  Yes, I meant 100.  One 200K document that
> used to take 5 minutes to render now takes 3 seconds.  Not all documents
> show such dramatic improvement but the smallest speedup we've seen for
> any somewhat normal stylesheets and documents is well over ten-fold.
>
> We're not even yet done with the optimizations, but it's not
> inconceivable that 4XSLT is as fast as any of the Java processors.  It's
> typically within 10% of saxon.
>
> At any rate, we hope to soon get on with the packaging so our users can
> get the benefits.
>
> Thanks.
>
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