Subject: RE: [xsl] performance of variables in a xpath expression From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 23:48:44 -0000 |
> im curious about how much slower it is to use a > variable in a xpath expression. The answers to performance questions always depend on which XSLT processor you are using: without that information, the question is meaningless. Even with that information, one would need to see the two stylesheets you are comparing; and as an implementor I would find out the answer by measuring both and giving you the figures - which you could do just as easily yourself. There are some circumstances in which using variables can greatly help performance, there are also some circumstances in which they might slow things down. In theory, given a perfect optimizer, it probably wouldn't make any difference either way; but optimizers are not perfect. Using a variable will often be taken as a hint to the processor that you want to use the value more than once: the chances are that if you put a value in a variable, the processor is more likely to allocate memory to it rather than computing the value repeatedly. Allocating the memory may or may not be cheaper than recomputing the value. Michael Kay Software AG home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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