[Yum] Re: RepoView

Tsai Li Ming mailinglist at ltsai.com
Mon Mar 7 04:04:20 UTC 2005


seth vidal wrote:
>>I was going to look at it tomorrow to see if I can reimplement mdparser
>>in cElementTree. It's hard to say which one is faster without having
>>side-by-side running code, but cElementTree site claims that it smokes
>>libxml2, plus it's a clear win in terms of the APIs: as opposed to
>>libxml2, the author of cElementTree has some idea about what makes good
>>Python bindings, so you don't feel like flossing with barbed wire when
>>writing code in it.
> 
> 
> I did some import tests using cElementTree last night, it's, umm, big,
> memory-wise. reading in filelists.xml.gz for only rawhide ate up 120M
> 
> I think with the FancyTreeBuilder it can be made a lot smaller, not sure
> yet.
> 
> -sv

Hi Seth,

You might want to check with effbot. cElementTree is suppose to be 
faster and takes up less memory than the rest.

Liming




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