I was unaware, I always use bs4 with lxml for parsing xml just because I like the interface. For what I'm doing, the bottleneck is the remote system/network

I was unaware, I always use bs4 with lxml for parsing xml just because I like the interface. For what I'm doing, the bottleneck is the remote system/network, so it doesn't really matter. But now I'm curious about which parts are slower and why. Maybe I'll run some experiments later.