[xquery-talk] FLOWR vs Xpath axis syntax - Performance

[David Lee]

IMHO ... performance characteristics are implementation dependent.  I don't believe one can make a statement that a particular syntax or feature is in general more performant in XQuery in general.  It depends on the implementation and often a lot more than that such as the particular document set, indexing, document size, caching, machnine configurations, system variables enabled etc.

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David A. Lee
dlee at calldei.com
http://www.xmlsh.org

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> Subject: [xquery-talk] FLOWR vs Xpath axis syntax - Performance
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> I vaguely remember reading somewhere that a preference for what I
> would call axis notation has performance advantages over the
> equivalent FLOWR code.
> 
> I certainly recall reading that  XPath predicates perform better than
> where clauses in FLOWR.
> 
> I would appreciate clarification, confirmation or correction and
> general enllightenment.
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