[gambit-list] Speed on XML-parsing

Frederick LeMaster fred.lemaster at gmail.com
Fri Aug 15 22:00:01 EDT 2008


Adjusting gambit to accept .c files not in the current directory will
allow SSAX to build.
There's a patch for that in bug #41.

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Bradley Lucier <lucier at math.purdue.edu> wrote:
>
> On Aug 15, 2008, at 7:08 PM, Hans Petter Egesund wrote:
>
>> Clues on this one?
>
> SSAX isn't easy to build (my own private definition, for anything I
> can't figure out how to build in 30 minutes or less--ah, it seems
> I've proved incompetent at this before:
>
> https://webmail.iro.umontreal.ca/pipermail/gambit-list/2006-October/
> 000882.html
>
> ), so it's going to be hard to offer suggestions.
>
> If you have heavy-duty string processing you might enable Gambit with
> --enable-char-size=1; the default is 4.
>
> If you follow the thread spread between subthreads starting
>
> https://webmail.iro.umontreal.ca/pipermail/gambit-list/2007-February/
> 001112.html
>
> and
>
> https://webmail.iro.umontreal.ca/pipermail/gambit-list/2007-February/
> 001125.html
>
> you'll see that IO using read-char and write-char is slow; that's
> hard to fix.
>
> You can increase the minimum heap size with -:m100000 (to give it
> 100MB).
>
> Good luck.
>
> Brad
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