# Jachym Holecek 2007-10-09:
> [... benchmark results ...]

It's been pointed to me the benchmark output was confusing, so I've
changed that to always output numbers for binary format relative to
XML (ie. XML measurements are considered to be 100%).

To answer another offlist question, XML is a bit faster for very small
and simple plists because binary externalizer needs more context and
bookeping (in particular, there's the object unification pass)... see
the corresponding samples, they're in regress/lib/libprop/samples/.

To explain a bit on the TRANSPORT test, as mentioned before it tries
to simulate the ioctl() protocol, so it's basically "externalize,
allocate new buffer, memcpy to new buffer, internalize from new
buffer". The RAW test, on the other hand, is simply the accumulated
time of "internalize + externalize", ie. no data copy involved.

Benchmark results in more readable form follow, this time with only
10000 loops per test (previously I used 300000, but the numbers don't
differ substantially).

Hope this makes things more clear,

	-- Jachym

PASSED aa.xml TRANSPORT  66% RAW  70% SIZE  15% 
PASSED ab.xml TRANSPORT  65% RAW  67% SIZE  17% 
PASSED ac.xml TRANSPORT  63% RAW  66% SIZE  14% 
PASSED ad.xml TRANSPORT  63% RAW  95% SIZE  29% 
PASSED ae.xml TRANSPORT  67% RAW  68% SIZE  15% 
PASSED af.xml TRANSPORT  87% RAW  90% SIZE  28% 
PASSED ag.xml TRANSPORT  90% RAW  94% SIZE  32% 
PASSED ah.xml TRANSPORT  88% RAW  79% SIZE  39% 
PASSED ai.xml TRANSPORT  98% RAW  98% SIZE  40% 
PASSED aj.xml TRANSPORT  54% RAW  69% SIZE  25% 
PASSED ak.xml TRANSPORT  73% RAW  95% SIZE  28% 
PASSED al.xml TRANSPORT  85% RAW  95% SIZE  37% 
PASSED am.xml TRANSPORT  73% RAW 111% SIZE  36% 
PASSED an.xml TRANSPORT  86% RAW  90% SIZE  54% 
PASSED ao.xml TRANSPORT 109% RAW 134% SIZE  42% 
PASSED ap.xml TRANSPORT  71% RAW  74% SIZE  30% 
PASSED aq.xml TRANSPORT  92% RAW  96% SIZE  23% 
PASSED ar.xml TRANSPORT 101% RAW 107% SIZE  26% 
PASSED as.xml TRANSPORT 112% RAW  68% SIZE  30% 
PASSED at.xml TRANSPORT  67% RAW  69% SIZE  26% 
PASSED au.xml TRANSPORT  95% RAW  77% SIZE  40% 
PASSED av.xml TRANSPORT  49% RAW  50% SIZE  27% 
PASSED aw.xml TRANSPORT  49% RAW  49% SIZE  48% 
PASSED ax.xml TRANSPORT  40% RAW  41% SIZE  47% 
PASSED ay.xml TRANSPORT  95% RAW 103% SIZE  53% 
PASSED az.xml TRANSPORT 101% RAW  94% SIZE  42% 
PASSED ba.xml TRANSPORT  71% RAW  75% SIZE  29%