Re: POLL: Fwd: Re: XPath filter 2.0

--On Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2002 09:40 -0400 Joseph Reagle <reagle@xxxxxx> 
wrote:

> On Tuesday 11 June 2002 07:38 pm, Christian Geuer-Pollmann wrote:
> > Apache test against merlin-xpath-filter2-three.tar.gz:
> >
> > 1: xpath-filter2 It verifies.
> > 2: performance: The pure transform takes 470 milli-seconds on my 350 MHz
> > notebook.
>
> Cool: updated! Even though these benchmarks are far from scientific it'd
> be  nice to keep the units relatively close. Could you report the
> sign/verify  (as John specified) or sign (as Merlin reported)? (A 350MHz
> machine is  about half the bogomips of the specified target.)

This value was verification like Merlin did.

I made some tests on well, our (three) transforms:

1: The OLD xfilter2 where union could re-include
  previously omitted nodes and a Transform could
  only carry no multiple XPathes and where I did
  NO optimization.

2: My own tree labeling transform.

3: The NEW xfilter2 where multiple XPath ops can be
  grouped and where I made an optimization similar
  to the one proposed by Merlin.

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On the pureedge example, the times look like this:

50 * pureedge_xfilter2 took          135,695 seconds
50 * pureedge_apachefilter took      131,449 seconds
50 * pureedge_xfilter2_new took      142,715 seconds

I'm not sure why, but the NEW xfilter2 takes more time than the OLD 
xfilter2, maybe the optimization can't help for only a single subtract 
operation. My alternative approach is faster here.

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Using the example from the spec

50 * xfilter2spec_xfilter2_3 took     20,359 seconds
50 * xfilter2spec_apachefilter_3 took 13,840 seconds
50 * xfilter2spec_xfilter2_3_new took 13,669 seconds

For three ops grouped in a single transform, the optimization can show what 
it does and shoes the same performance as my own approach does.

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Regards,
Christian