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Weblog:   The Python comunity has too many deceptive XML benchmarks
Subject:   "There's a Riot Goin' On"
Date:   2005-01-25 13:45:13
From:   oreillyuser
Response to: "There's a Riot Goin' On"

"What kind of excuse is that?"


Great non-point, Istvan Albert.


There are two points I believe Uche made that have not been addressed despite all of Fredrik Lundh's (effbot) blustering here, on his blog, and on his pythonware daily site. One is that Fredrik's benchmark is pretty useless because it just loads an XML file into a data structure but does nothing significant with it. Two is that Fredrik's useless benchmarks give the misleading impression then that some other XML tools are much horribly slower than they really are, when really most of the XML tools are quite comparable to one another speed-wise, and some of them are even better when you consider other issues like how easy they are to use. And really, since this is Python, ease of use is of primary importance. celementtree may or may not be the fastest, but I don't believe it is the easiest to use or install.
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  • "There's a Riot Goin' On"
    2005-01-25 15:02:30  effbot [Reply | View]

    So the only supporter Uche can bring up posts anonymously, repeats Uche's nonsense, and uses exactly the same words, style and phrasing as Uche himself. Cute.

    (as for your so-called arguments, some hints: for three processes that run in sequence, the total time is A+B+C, not max(A, B, C). if you set A to zero, the total will drop. second, how hard is it to "click on installer" or type "python setup.py install". thousands of people have already done it. I'm sure you can do it to, if you try. feel free to mail me if you need help.)
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