[Kst] QTextStream to QDomElement

[George Staikos]

On Friday 14 January 2005 13:25, Andrew Walker wrote:
> Okay, so this demonstrates that the Qt implementation of XML
> is very slow compared to other implementations. It doesn't say
> anything about how QDomElement compares to QTextStream
> speed-wise though. Is it possible that QTextStream is just as bad?

  It is slow relative to fprintf, yes.  It should not be as slow as QDom, 
especially under malloc pressure.  Write a testcase that writes out 100000 
XML nodes to a QString at various nesting levels with text and attributes 
using QDom vs QTextStream, not in a tight loop, not reusing QDom nodes in any 
unrealistic way that we wouldn't be able to do with hierarchical writing.  
Even if it shows that QTextStream is inefficient, we actually should really 
consider using a QIODevice instead of QTextStream probably.  Then we can 
attach to the QIODevice with a QTextStream if desired.  There's just no need 
to change it at this point.

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