How much faster is XML compared to loading regular .txt

Wolf Dreamer · Post by **Wolf Dreamer** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 10:44 pm

It seems to me it'd be easier to just use a .txt file.

Will there be any notiable speed increase by using .xml instead? I have a 1.9ghz computer, so even with a lot of information to load up, would it matter?

Peter Müller · Post by **Peter Müller** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 11:02 pm

It will only make a little speed difference, if you phrase an XML file instead of an text source.

warui · Post by **warui** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 12:18 am

Are you sure ? I think parsing normal text files is faster than XML ones.

Peter Müller · Post by **Peter Müller** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 12:39 am

Of cause it's faster, but normally you load only some times something out of an xml file.

And on an 1.9GHerz system it doesn't matter, if you don't phrase the file every frame.