Posted by ncrofts on Mar 01, 2011; 9:19pm
URL: https://discuss.orbeon.com/Compiled-XSLT-stylesheets-tp3326236p3330624.html

Erik,

Thanks for these clarifications.

I've been doing some additional research on the saxon compilation mechanism. It would seem that compilation to the saxon intermediate form is unlikely to bring significant performance benefit. For example:

"...  the facility for "compiling" stylesheets ... basically takes the optimized syntax tree produced by the Saxon compile-time code and serializes it as a data structure on disk, so that it can be reloaded and executed at any time. Frankly, there are no significant performance advantages in doing this compared with recompiling the source. "

Regards,
Neil