Re: [xsl] [ANN] Saxon/C - Saxon for the C/C++ and PHP platforms

[Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 28 Nov 2013, at 19:48, Adam Retter <adam.retter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> That is great news :-)
>
> If you are inclined to share them, I would love to hear more about the
> process and what your thoughts were when you were evaluating LLVM and
> why you went with JET?

I'll ask O'Neil to share some of the experiences: he has led this development.
We did try more than one approach; rather than a formal evaluation it was more
a case of "if X doesn't work let's try Y", until we hit on Jet which did the
business.
>
> So we need to create a libxslt2 bridge now right?
>

You mean in terms of bridging the API? We haven't really explored what's
feasible yet in terms of libxslt2 and libxml cooexistence. At the moment if
you've got data in a libxml tree you have to serialize and reparse to get it
into Saxon. I don't know if we'll ever be able to do better than that; I
suspect the overheads of doing it this way are lower than the overheads of
accessing the libXML tree node-by-node from the Java environment, but we'll
find out in due course.