How to cite this paper

Zergaoui, Mohamed. “Memory management in streaming: Buffering, lookahead, or none. Which to choose?” Presented at International Symposium on Processing XML Efficiently: Overcoming Limits on Space, Time, or Bandwidth, Montréal, Canada, August 10, 2009. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Processing XML Efficiently: Overcoming Limits on Space, Time, or Bandwidth. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 4 (2009). https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol4.Zergaoui02.

International Symposium on Processing XML Efficiently: Overcoming Limits on Space, Time, or Bandwidth
August 10, 2009

Balisage Paper: Memory management in streaming: Buffering, lookahead, or none. Which to choose?

Mohamed Zergaoui

Innovimax

Mohamed Zergaoui is the CTO and founder of Innovimax. He is an active member of W3C WG related to processing (XSLT, XQuery, XProc) and of ISO DSDL. He is currently part of a big research framework in France with public funding for streaming and parallel processing.

Abstract

Although the ideal approach to streaming is to process markup events as soon as they are encountered, with no memory needing to be used for storing parts of the input document, this is not always feasible, and in practice it is useful to consider “near-streaming” approaches that involve a limited amount of buffering or lookahead. In the extreme, however, such approaches degenerate until they are indistinguishable from non-streaming processes. This paper attempts a classification of streaming and near-streaming processing methods using different approaches to memory management, and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each.

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