[OSM-dev] XAPI and other solutions

[Martijn van Exel]

On 4/28/11 2:58 PM, Oliver Tonnhofer wrote:
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> On 28.04.2011, at 14:46, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
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>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Oliver Tonnhofer<olt at omniscale.de>  wrote:
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>>> If you are using Python, you should use iterparse from the ElementTree API, it is much nicer and faster.
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>> Faster than SAX? I'm not so sure. SAX calls the C directly.
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> Here is a benchmark: http://effbot.org/zone/celementtree.htm
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> Regards,
> Oliver
>
Interesting, this totally uproots my firm conviction that SAX parsing is 
always more time- and memory-efficient than tree/DOM-based parsing.

The article is 6 years old, do the benchmarks still hold in your experience?

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