RE: SAXON 5.0 is available

[Sebastien Sahuc <ssahuc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Kay wrote :
> I still hope to get the compiler finished, though my enthusiasm 
> has been a little diminished by early performance results: there's
no 
> point shipping it unless it runs significantly faster than the 
> terpreter. 

What is 'significantly faster' ? Is it at least 2x faster ? Indeed,
with Saxon 4.5, I made some test and the compiled style sheet appeared
to compute exactly twice as fast as the interpreted version, so seems
to be worth enough. The style sheet I took as example was one you
provide with SAXON 'book.xsl'.

I strongly believe that compiled style sheet can blast server side
processing. On this subject, may I ask you to read an excellent
comment from Ray Cromwell posted in Java Lobby (if you haven't yet).
Indeed he's raiseing some good question around scalability of XSL
processing.

Anyway thank for your hard work, it's really valuable for the XSL
community.

Sebastien


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