reza bfar ebuilt rbfarebuiltcom increasing prevalence web services always good thing doubt parsing xml something remain java application layer long recent threads fork indicating move towards hardware parsing code even become part native implementation java various platforms reza bfar original message forkadminxentcom mailtoforkadminxentcomon behalf adam l beberg sent sunday september 01 2002 901 pm mr fork cc forkspamassassintaintorg subject java kiddies sun 1 sep 2002 mr fork wrote 6 hardware getting fast im sure performance difference java cc relevant outofthebox parsing transform xml java 25x slower c hardware matter yea top 100x parsing engines bigendianing passing data 5x raw really matters adam l duncan beberg httpwwwmithralcombeberg bebergmithralcom mon 2 sep 2002 093022 0700 java kiddies