Subject: Re: [xsl] XALAN-FOP Performance and Push-Pull Processing From: cfisher@xxxxxxx Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:51:46 -0600 |
Curtis Fisher Contractor - Manpower Professional Services David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx > To xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 01/18/2005 11:07 cc AM Subject Re: [xsl] XALAN-FOP Performance and Please respond to Push-Pull Processing xsl-list@xxxxxxxx lberrytech.com Curtis asks: I have been searching for a thread related to performance with the two types of programming styles. MK's books give me some insight as to what types of overhead can occur in an XSL Transformation, but I need a little more empirical evidence related to XALAN. Can anyone point me to a thread or offer an opinion that points to performance impacts/issues, specifically when employing each programming style? David replied: > I don't really see it as a performance issue: it's more a matter of getting different output. If you want the structure of your output to be determined by the structure of the input (as common when formatting a textual document) you want a push style. If you want the structure of the output to be determined by the structure of your stylesheet (as common when generating reports from database queries and other table structured data) you want a pull style. > Curtis asks again... I understand this distinction, but what about the node processing overhead that would occur for one verses the other? Is more memory used because of the way in which XPath expressions are used to locate specific nodes in a Pull style, or would the Push result in more memory usage? I realize I'm being very general in framing the question, but just as certain styles of programming affect performance in other languages (single long routines, or small routines, broken into short bursts to accomplish the same thing), I wish to find out what the most efficient route is for performance. If there is one. I have read many threads here related to writing more efficient transforms and benchmarks for Saxon or XALAN being a topic now and then, but is there a rule of thumb for writing templates that helps performance? Curtis asked: Also, if Push is used within a template rule as well as Pull, does the XSL Template revert to the same rules used for Push? David replied: > There are no separate rules. Or any clear distinction between the styles, push style tends to have lots of templates each calling apply-templates so that at run time they may be called in any order, depending on the document. pull style tends to have fewer, or in the extreme case, just one template, matching the root of the document. There are of course many styles which fall between these extremes (which is where most stylesheets live in practice). > Curtis explains and asks again: I think my using the term "rules" kinda' clouded what I really was getting at; take a database example, a database builds a query plan and executes it in memory, the optimizer decides how to build the plan based on rules. These optimizers can sometimes be overridden or given other flags on how to build a plan for a specific query. Are XSLT processors such as Saxon or XALAN built with anything internal that determines the processing based on something as simple as Push or Pull, or anything else? Thanks ahead of time for you patience Dave... Curtis ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________
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