Re: Is it wiser to move on from XML::Simple to XML::Compile

[markov]

XML::Compile does not belong in this list: it interprets the output of XML::LibXML, where the other modules are mainly only parsers.

Have a look at XML::LibXML::Simple, which is XML::Simple based on XML::LibXML. How does that compare? And XML::Twig?

It seems your benchmark hits some other resource limit for XML::Fast/XML::LibXML. Probably you need a larger XML source in memory to compare the three fasters parsers.

[mohan2monks]

Thanks for reply.
I agree XML::Compile does not belong in this comparison.
This comparison should not be considered as comparisons of performance of different parsers.
I was just trying to compare these for my case and really think XML::Compile a great code. It supports all schema validations etc and fits well for my case too. I was looking for a possible plug in to XML::Simple with better performance.
I had checked XML::LibXML::Simple too but not of much difference as both take much time in converting to perl hash than actual parsing.
Here is result for two

                s/iter xmllibxmlsimple       xmlsimple
xmllibxmlsimple   22.8              --             -3%
xmlsimple         22.2              3%              --

[markov]

XML::Fast is also creating HASHes. The difference might be that it construct those in XS, where ::Simple need to cross the expensive XS <-> Perl border for each node.