On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 11:38:47 -0500, Kendall Clark wrote: > >compromise. (The flippant side of me wants to point out that the > >results > >format would > >be more efficient if it only used one-letter element names, as well.) > > But not relevantly more efficient, Lee. Jeen's numbers, IIRC, show > that option c is 2x more efficient than LC design. How much > efficiency gain would one-letter element names buy? I'd be > *astonished* if it were more than 10%. No way it's 2x. (Though if you > prove me wrong, I will buy you a beer!) [swh@ereshkegal ~]$ ts-query 'SELECT ?z WHERE {?x ?y ?z}' > foo.xml [swh@ereshkegal ~]$ ts-query 'SELECT ?z WHERE {?x ?y ?z}' > bar.xml [swh@ereshkegal ~]$ vi bar.xml ... [swh@ereshkegal ~]$ wc -c *.xml 17125 /tmp/bar.xml 25774 /tmp/foo.xml [swh@ereshkegal ~]$ bc 100*42899/25774 166 Is 66% enough for a free beer? ;) c.f. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~swh/1char-el/foo.xml http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~swh/1char-el/bar.xml - Steve PS Just incase theres any doubt, I'm not advocating 1 character element names!Received on Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:31:39 GMT
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