I'm writing a program that will query an XML file with the XmlTextReader
class (the question is not specifically about XML, however). This file is
very large (maybe 20 MB at most), and during extreme conditions, it'll have
to be queried thousands of times (maybe 20,000 times at most). Small
fragments of this file are used to construct another file.
What is most economical, in terms of system resources? Opening and closing
the file + initializing and destroying the XmlTextReader thousands of times,
or loading all the contents in the file in memory, and pick data from a tree
in memory? Also, would it be more efficient to query a table in SQL Server
thousands of times?
Thanks,
Gustaf
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news:uj******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl... I'm writing a program that will query an XML file with the XmlTextReader
class (the question is not specifically about XML, however). This file is
very large (maybe 20 MB at most), and during extreme conditions, it'll
have to be queried thousands of times (maybe 20,000 times at most). Small
fragments of this file are used to construct another file.
What is most economical, in terms of system resources? Opening and closing
the file + initializing and destroying the XmlTextReader thousands of
times, or loading all the contents in the file in memory, and pick data from a
tree in memory? Also, would it be more efficient to query a table in SQL Server
thousands of times?
Thanks,
Gustaf
Do it in memory unless you're really strapped for memory - continually
opening, parsing and closing a file will be really slow and unless each time
you're only using extremely small fragments to construct your other file,
you'll probably end up reading a lot of the original in anyway. 20MB really
isn't a lot of memory nowadays, and a tree representation of it in memory
won't be a lot larger. In terms of SQL, again, you'll trade off speed for
memory usage, but unless your machine really has no spare memory (or you
don't care about speed) just read it in once to a tree you can search
efficiently.
Steve
"Steve McLellan" <sj*@fixerlabs. com.NOSPAM> wrote: Do it in memory unless you're really strapped for memory - continually
opening, parsing and closing a file will be really slow and unless each
time you're only using extremely small fragments to construct your other file,
you'll probably end up reading a lot of the original in anyway. 20MB
really isn't a lot of memory nowadays, and a tree representation of it in memory
won't be a lot larger.
Thank you very much. That's a convincing answer.
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