[libxml-devel] Memory usage compared to REXML

[Charlie Savage]

Hi Ian,

> I just switched over a chunk of code to use libxml-ruby expecting to
> see improvements in performance and memory usage. While performance is
> drastically better, memory usage has increased quite significantly.
> 
> With REXML parsing a 3.8mb document would consume 259mb, however with
> libxml-ruby parsing the same document consumes around 407mb.

Try trunk.  Joe recently checked in a change that significantly reduces 
memory usage on OS X.

See:

http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/libxml-devel/2009-February/001375.html

Charlie

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