Hi,
we just started playing with ruby and ActiveRecord a few days ago at
my company and we're having major troubles of outputting xml fast
enough.
Pure xml output from ActiveRecord::Base takes approx 20s for 500
objects (that are small and simple). Does anyone have any pointers?
How fast is REXML?
Slow as hell. We just did a refactoring today, going from xml to json to pass AR data between apps. We achieved an order of magnitude speed increase and profiling showed 70% of the time on the client side was spent parsing xml and 30% on the server side creating the xml reppresentation.
If you're stuck with XML I'd look into a replacement for rexml.
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:40:07 +0900, Michael Litton wrote:
Hi,
we just started playing with ruby and ActiveRecord a few days ago at
my company and we're having major troubles of outputting xml fast
enough.Pure xml output from ActiveRecord::Base takes approx 20s for 500
objects (that are small and simple). Does anyone have any pointers?
How fast is REXML?
Look into libxml.
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Michael Litton <michael.e.litton@gmail.com> wrote:
Pure xml output from ActiveRecord::Base takes approx 20s for 500
objects (that are small and simple). Does anyone have any pointers?
How fast is REXML?
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The devil is in the details. I rewrote my XML-manipulation class to use
libxml instead of REXML and the libxml-based version of my routine takes
twice as long as the REXML-based version. So it all depends on exactly
what you do with it... m.
Avdi Grimm <avdi@avdi.org> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Michael Litton > <michael.e.litton@gmail.com> wrote:
> Pure xml output from ActiveRecord::Base takes approx 20s for 500
> objects (that are small and simple). Does anyone have any pointers?
> How fast is REXML?Look into libxml.
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