Re: code bloat [was Re: Semaphore assembly-code bug]

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 06:44:10PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Tim Hockin wrote:
> >So you end up with the mindset of, for example, "if it's text it's XML".
> >You have to parse everything as XML, when simple parsers would be tons
> >faster and simpler and smaller.
> 
> hehehe.  One of the reasons why I like XML is that you don't have to 
> keep cloning new parsers.

.... if you don't mind bloating your application:

% ls -l /usr/lib/libxml2.a
4224 -rw-r--r--  1 root root 4312536 Oct 19 21:55 /usr/lib/libxml2.a

						- Ted

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