Re: [docbook-apps] Experiences of relative performance of differentxsl engines w/ docbook xsl?

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Antti Karanta wrote:

>   Has anyone done any performance comparisons of how different xsl
> engines perform when using docbook xsl (saxon, xalan, xsltproc etc)? Are
> there significant differences?

From those three, on more complex transformation Saxon is usually the
fastest. I think that we (as stylesheet developers) should try make
stylesheets working also under Saxon 9 in XSLT 1.0 backward compatibile
mode. This shouldn't be big efort, I think that non-chunking stylesheets
are working this way already. Saxon 9 is more performant then Saxon
6.5.5 and more and more optimiztations are added into it thanks to its
excellent developer.

			Jirka

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