newformat format change

[David Allouche]

On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 13:12 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> I'm not sure it was such a good idea.  Reading and writing XML turns
> up as a hot spot in profiles, even though we're using a highly
> optimized xml library and the other code is not very optimized.  One
> part of the problem is that cElementTree needs to build everything
> into an in-memory structure which is then discarded; with a simple
> text form we can just convert directly.

Is there any specific reason why a SAX sort of API cannot be used to
save building the intermediate structure?

It's not like you are reading out-in-the-wild xml with namespace and all
the other wild shit. Expat should do the job pretty well, and I heard
it's really really fast.

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                                                            -- ddaa
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