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Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:21:50 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: code bloat [was Re: Semaphore assembly-code bug]
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Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 06:44:10PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>>Tim Hockin wrote:
>>
>>>So you end up with the mindset of, for example, "if it's text it's XML".
>>>You have to parse everything as XML, when simple parsers would be tons
>>>faster and simpler and smaller.
>>
>>hehehe.  One of the reasons why I like XML is that you don't have to 
>>keep cloning new parsers.
> 
> 
> .... if you don't mind bloating your application:
> 
> % ls -l /usr/lib/libxml2.a
> 4224 -rw-r--r--  1 root root 4312536 Oct 19 21:55 /usr/lib/libxml2.a

GLib's is a lot smaller :)

	Jeff


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