RE: sgml-parse and GC

Subject: RE: sgml-parse and GC
From: "Wilson, James.W" <James.W.Wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 08:01:19 -0500
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From: Peter Nilsson [mailto:pnidv96@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 4:19 AM
To: dssslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: sgml-parse and GC

> If you want to process large documents and wanna be
> able to navigate arbitrarily ghrough them (which DSSSL
> requires), then you will need a lot of memory. How
> else would it be? Maybe the grove implementation could 
> be optimized better for memory, but I don't think so
> since James Clark probably spent a lot of effort in
> this critical area.

I have done some experiments with this, and Jade will use almost exactly the
input file's size in RAM. 1 gig input file = 1 gig of RAM. I don't think it
gets much better than that unless you want to drop it into a database or
some such.

James Wilson


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