[cairo] Re: SVG backend patch

[Pierre-Alain Joye]

On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 09:57:22 -0400
Jody Goldberg <jody at gnome.org> wrote:

> There is certainly a case for using libxml when doing significant
> xml work.  However, the DOM representation uses alot of memory.
> If there is no need to walk the tree once generated it is not
> terribly useful.  In Gnumeric we picked up a factor of 3-10 in
> performance by moving to a more printf style of xml generation
> using the routines in libgsf.  All we were doing was generating
> alot of sequential xml, the memory allocation alone was about 4x
> the internal datastructures.

Did yout try xmlwriter? and reader if you read some xml datas.

--Pierre