[Typo3-dev] XML vs. Serialized Arrays

[Arne Skjaerholt]

Joel on Software has a very good comment on the XML and efficiency in
this article: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000296.html
(section 2, a page or two down).
In essence this is the lesson: If you want efficiency, don't use XML.
XML is lovely for some things (human-readability and editability being
one of them), but efficiency is not one of them. XML requires rather a
lot of string parsing, which is quite inefficient.

Arne
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