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Subject: Re: [boost] [GSoC] Boost.XML
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-20 21:35:40


Phil Endecott wrote:

> However, recently I needed something that used less memory. I wanted to
> process a very large file without ever having all of it in memory
> (imagine e.g. loading a database). So I wrote something where the
> element and attribute iterators (etc.) are just pointers into the
> (memory-mapped) XML source. When an iterator is incremented it steps
> through the source looking (textually) for the start of the next element
> or attribute (etc.). The result is something that uses almost no memory
> and is fast for the sorts of access pattern that I needed.

This is exactly the kind of approach I find interesting. Could you share
this code?


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