> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 23:08:38 +0000
> From: Dr Robert Sanderson <[log in to unmask]>
>
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Adam Dickmeiss wrote:
> > Mike Taylor wrote:
> >>> From: "LeVan,Ralph" <[log in to unmask]>
>
> You guys must have absolutely blinding transformation engines if
> you're worried about the time it takes to instantiate a URI object.

:-)

No, Ralph's time overhead is, if I properly understand, to do with
repeatedly setting up and tearing down the underlying TCP/IP
connection (and, as like as not, most of _that_ time is spend in
hostname lookup).  The fix is to get, or write, a better HTTP GET
library.

> I haven't done any serious profiling, but my expectation is that
> I'll find something pretty similar to Adam -- the amount of work to
> parse the SOAP XML outweighs anything else, assuming that the search
> isn't expensive (title > a) and the records don't need to be
> transformed before returning them (MarcXML -> MODS).

I am sure this is true in all implementation that don't abuse the
network.

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