Re: [boost] [GSoC] Boost.XML

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?