RE: sgml-parse and GC

Subject: RE: sgml-parse and GC
From: Avi Kivity <Avi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 11:10:30 +0300
On Tuesday, July 20, 1999 01:19, Brandon Ibach [SMTP:bibach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
wrote:
> Quoting Avi Kivity <Avi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > [Regarding an on-disk grove implementation with memory mapped files]
> > What you would get is grove persistence over invocations of the style
> > engine, which may or may not be a win.
> > 
>    Of course, this would be dependent on how well it was managed.  For
> instance, could we implement an effective "dependency" system, where
> OpenJade would track the modification times and reparse a document
> only when needed?  Of course, the benefits of this would depend upon
> the application.  An application that has a lot of reuse of largely
> static documents could probably benefit greatly.  One that hardly ever
> reuses a document without it changing would not benefit much, if at
> all.  I think it would be good to have, one way or another.
> 
A large document composed of multiple subdocuments would surely benefit. Of
course, simply tracking file time is not enough -- any included system
entities would also have to be tracked.




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