Re: Output of dpkg-scanpackages as XML
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:14:31PM +0100, Frank S. Thomas wrote:
> I could successfully convert sid's binary-i386/source package files into XML.
> However, because dctrl2xml builds up a dom tree of all packages in these
> files, this is horribly slow. There may also be some cases where dctrl2xml
> will fail.
So don't do that. Process it like a stream.
I'm helping a church rewrite some code which generates a PDF church
directory. It's failing because they run mysql_query which joins the
families + members table and it uses more memory than the host allows.
I know this is just two data points, but I wonder why a PHP guy and now
a Python guy overlooks this. Fortunately, when I was "stupid", I was
using Visual Basic/DAO Recordsets which implemented a cursor size.
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