[BioRuby] Performance of Bio::Blast.reports

[Anurag Priyam]

> On could, in fact, use the libxml2 pull parser to grab what you need, which doesn't require pulling the entire XML document into memory.

libxml2-ruby is quite buggy (segfaults, namespace does not work
correctly on attributes, inconsistent interface). AFAIK, its not Ruby
1.9.2 ready. I would suggest Nokogiri (Nokogiri::Reader - pull
parser[1]), which is almost as fast and has a better interface.

[1] http://nokogiri.rubyforge.org/nokogiri/Nokogiri/XML/Reader.html

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Anurag Priyam,
3rd Year Undergraduate,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
IIT Kharagpur.
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