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2006-05-30T19:45:37
Optimized xmlXPathNodeCollectAndTest() and xmlXPathNodeCollectAndTestNth() * xpath.c: Optimized xmlXPathNodeCollectAndTest() and xmlXPathNodeCollectAndTestNth() to evaluate a compound traversal of 2 axes when we have a "//foo" expression. This is done with a rewrite of the XPath AST in xmlXPathRewriteDOSExpression(); I added an additional field to xmlXPathStepOp for this (but the field's name should be changed). The mechanism: the embracing descendant-or-self axis traversal (also optimized to return only nodes which can hold elements), will produce context nodes for the inner traversal of the child axis. This way we avoid a full node-collecting traversal of the descendant-or-self axis. Some tests indicate that this can reduce execution time of "//foo" to 50%. Together with the XPath object cache this all significantly speeds up libxslt.
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