This benchmark is simple enough that the overhead of evaluation is not
far greater than parsing. This makes it suitable for benchmarking the
performance increase of caching XPath ASTs.
Instead of trying to make this class thread-safe I'm going with the
option of simply declaring it unsafe to mutate instances of XML::Text
while reading it in parallel. This removes the need for Mutex
allocations and keeps the code simple.
Fixes#82
Currently all operators are left-associative with no particular precedence. This
causes a few specs to fail for now. Outside of that the new parser should be
able to parse the same input as the Racc based parser.
Removing this makes the process of parsing larger XML documents a bit faster.
The downside is that NodeSet#initialize will no longer filter out duplicate
nodes, though this is not something Oga itself relies upon.
Methods such as NodeSet#push still do ignore elements already present.
This was utterly broken, mainly due to me overlooking it. There are now 2 new
callbacks to handle this properly:
* on_attribute: to handle a single attribute/value pair
* on_attributes: to handle a collection of attributes (as returned by
on_attribute)
By default on_attribut returns a Hash, on_attributes in turn merges all
attribute hashes into a single one. This ensures that on_element _actually_
receives the attributes as a Hash, instead of an Array with random
nil/XML::Attribute values.
Using Array#+ for large sets (e.g. in the benchmarks) is _really_ slow.
Interesting enough Array#unshift uses as much memory as the Racc parser and is
about as fast, even though it has to move memory around.
Instead of decoding entities in the lexer we'll do this whenever XML::Text#text
is called. This removes the overhead from the parsing phase and ensures the
process is only triggered when actually needed. Note that calling #to_xml and/or
the #inspect methods on a Text (or parent) instance will also trigger the entity
conversion process.
The new entity decoding API supports both regular entities (e.g. &) as well
as codepoint based entities (both regular and hexadecimal codepoints).
To allow safe read-only access to Text instances from multiple threads a mutex
is used. This mutex ensures that only 1 thread can trigger the conversion
process.
Fixes#68
Yorick Peterse