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    <title>Things That Don't Scale: Entry #42</title>
    <published>2018-04-12T07:39:13Z</published>
    <updated>2018-04-12T07:39:13Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">There are some approaches in programming that simply don't scale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of them, I am now reminded after running a bunch of timing tests, is reading large XML data using DOM.  My only consolation is that I was not the one who decided that using DOM was a good idea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have suggested using a nice serial forward-only XML reader.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that someone &lt;i&gt;else&lt;/i&gt; can fix up the code to do so. :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=billroper&amp;ditemid=2607964" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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