>>If performance actually matters to you, you are much better off measuring things like competing mature XML parsers or the like.<< Please tell us where we can

>>If performance actually matters to you, you are much better off measuring things like competing mature XML parsers or the like.<< Please tell us where we can see that comparison! >>less wrong than using a five-line microbenchmark<< The trouble with that hyperbole is that someone's already mentioned their five-line microbenchmark in this discussion -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4544096 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4544096 The alternatives to the benchmarks game that people come up with are usually worse, not better.