in reply to Re^4: Why oh why is working with XML so bloomin' difficult in Perl?
in thread Modified title: The structures created by many of the XML parsers in Perl appear unnecessarily deep in levels...
Isn't that a classic trade-off? Pick one: fast or light weight. If you can use up as much memory as you want, finding something should not take a whole lot of time. But if you want to keep your RAM usage down, way down -- you have to spend extra CPU cycles to do so.
jeffa
L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L-- -R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B-- H---H---H---H---H---H--- (the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)
In Section
Seekers of Perl Wisdom