Re: funny article

  "Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt_at_tincat-group.comREMOVE> writes:

>STOP! Be afraid! Your livelihood is under attack by a new approach
>to formatted data. While comma-quote (comma-separated,
>comma-delimited, tab-delimited, csv, etc) formats did no physical
>harm, we are now being attacked by a data format so powerful that it
>will topple our profession. DO NOT TOUCH! If you get any of the
>XML on your hands, it will start oozing into every part of your
>being. <soul>It will consume you!</soul> Anything you touch will
>then be wrapped in XML. This will not only make your stuff
>dog-ugly, but will slow you down to a point where medication will
>not be effective in reviving you. Everything you once held dear
>will mean nothing to you ever again. Be afraid -- BE VERY
>AFRAID<punctuation>!</punctuation>

When I was working on an XML project and finding my programs too slow I put comma or blank delimited text in the XML <data> 0 1 2 3 4 </data>

In one I had multiple subtags each containing a list of numbers, such that corresponding elements in each list were associated. That is, like a structure of arrays instead of an array of structures, which would take many more tags for the slow parser to process. I have a goal of at least 1MB/s for file I/O for such programs.

• glen