> using the reader at the C level, this include decompressing the archive > and walking though all nodes. The main cost is to turn the parsed data into > Python's internal representation as I said. > > > than wouldn't be useful to > > implement that small portion in C? or it isn't so small part? > > The string interning is in the Python lib, probably in C as it's a C API > as far as I can tell. And no I din't looked at python internal code. I'm talking from ignorance here: Would it be possible to speed up the string interning by providing your own __repr__ methods in the libxml2 python module? -sv
