Re: [xsl] Performance results of an XML-based neural network versus a map-based neural network

["Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22.07.2020 13:25, Dr. Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Surprisingly, however, the overall time to train the XML-based neural
network was faster than the time to train the map-based neural network:
> neural-network:train
>
> XML-based:
> average time (net/ms) = 1711.572
> total time (net/ms) = 169,445.644
>
> map-based:
> average time (net/ms) = 3633.811
> total time (net/ms) = 359,747.295
>
> I don't understand how this could possibly happen.


Does the profile not reveal where the map based solution spends most of
the time?


Which Saxon version exactly is that?

It might matter to judge that if the internal implementation of maps in
Saxon has changed in different versions.