[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 11953] New: WebKit should investigate making libxml2 use UTF-16 for possibly huge parsing speedup

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11953

           Summary: WebKit should investigate making libxml2 use UTF-16 for
                    possibly huge parsing speedup
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 420+ (nightly)
          Platform: Macintosh
        OS/Version: Mac OS X 10.4
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: XML
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: macdome at opendarwin.org


WebKit should investigate making libxml2 use UTF-16 for possibly huge parsing
speedup

Right now libxml2 uses utf-8 internally.  I remember some discussion (on the
libxml mailing list) about it being possible to change the default internal
encoding.   I'm not sure if I'm dreaming or not, but if we were successful in
hacking it to be UTF16, that would save a lot of string re-encoding in our SAX
handlers.

http://xmlsoft.org/encoding.html#internal  talks a bit about the internal
encoding.


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