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  • From: "Michael Kay" <mike AT saxonica.com>
  • To: "'Wolfgang Hoschek'" <whoschek AT lbl.gov>, "'Elliotte Harold'" <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • Cc: 'Wolfgang Hoschek' <whoschek AT yahoo.com>, xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: RE: [XOM-interest] indexOf O(1) patch?
  • Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 09:06:25 -0000


> As I said, this misses the point. The point is that trying to tweak a
> little memory to enable very large documents is a loosing
> battle. It's a fight one cannot win, only loose.

I disagree with this. Firstly, if you can halve the memory requirements then
you've increased the number of people who can use your product by a useful
margin. More importantly, I've found that whenever you take reasonable steps
to be less profligate with memory, you increase speed. Allocating and
reclaiming memory takes time. OK: the number of objects is probably more
important than the number of bytes. But they tend to be correlated.


Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/





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