RE: [docbook-apps] The compiled Saxon DocBook stylesheets doesn'tspeed anything??

[Tapanainen Mika <Mika.Tapanainen@digia.com>]

Maybe for the DocBook stylesheets there is no sense to use compilation with Xalan??

For rather big xml (about 1M) the advantage is 3% (25 and 26 seconds) and for the small xml (10KB) it was same time (4 seconds) to transform xml to the fo. 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jirka Kosek [mailto:jirka@kosek.cz] 
>Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 1:41 PM
>To: Tapanainen Mika
>Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
>Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] The compiled Saxon DocBook 
>stylesheets doesn't speed anything??
>
>Tapanainen Mika wrote:
>
>> It is only 3% faster to use the compiled stylesheets. So why 
>it is possible it is so slow to use the compiled stylesheets?
>
>Saxon stylesheet compilation only improves startup time. 
>Stylesheets are
>not compiled into byte-code but into Saxon internal structure. If you
>run compiled stylesheet there is no need to parse and analyze it again,
>but execution speed is same as with normal non-complied stylesheets.
>
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