Performance of XML/RSS output

[andi]

Hello,

if we do post-process the XML searchresults with ASP.NET, what do you think is the performance hit against the cgi-version?

Is calling the cgi via the .net-wrapper a great performance hit? Is parsing the xml result time intensive or will be generating the formatted output a slowing factor?

ASP.NET compared to ASP: can we gain some time with precompiled ASP.NET versus interpreted ASP for formatting the output?

[David]

ASP.NET will have much better performance than .ASP. (especially if you use .NET elsewhere on your site and all the .NET .DLL's are already loaded or cached in RAM)

Also .NET is a much richer and consistent programming environment. So it should be easier to code in.

If you have some well written code the wrapping & parsing should not add much time at all. Zoom does the heavy lifting by searching through the content of up to a million files and then ranking them. A wrapper script only needs to deal with a single page of summary results.

Another option would be to customise the CGI source code itself and avoid the parsing and wrapping.