Article:		XML Parser Benchmarks: Part 1
Subject:		Parsing is NOT the bottleneck
Date:		2007-05-11 13:19:27
From:		TextScience
Thanks for an enlightening article and useful work. BUT ... I don't agree with your opening premise: "Five years after the introduction of SOAP 1.0, XML parsing is still the main bottleneck in web service performance." Parsing, by itself, does not produce a result and the work to turn parsed XML into a result is, in my experience, 80 to 90% of the job. For common processes in Web Services like XML Signing, Encryption, XSLT, certainly but any kind of transformation parsing does not exceed 10% of the performance cost. Accelerate parsing by 10,000X in the case and you still have a maximum process acceleration of 1.1X.

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