Andy Fish wrote:

> From reading the documentation, I get the impression that
> XslCompiledTransform should be faster than XslTransform
>
> on my test with a large complex document and a large complex XSLT, the
> transform took 4 minutes with XslTransform but 7 minutes with
> XslCompiledTransform.
>
> However, with the same stylesheet on another large complex document, the
> time dropped from 4 minutes with XslTransform to just 45 seconds with
> XslCompiledTransform.
>
> any clues as to what might cause this difference in performance? is one of
> my results exceptional?

"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@yahoo.de> wrote in message
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> Andy Fish wrote:
>
>> From reading the documentation, I get the impression that
>> XslCompiledTransform should be faster than XslTransform
>>
>> on my test with a large complex document and a large complex XSLT, the
>> transform took 4 minutes with XslTransform but 7 minutes with
>> XslCompiledTransform.
>>
>> However, with the same stylesheet on another large complex document, the
>> time dropped from 4 minutes with XslTransform to just 45 seconds with
>> XslCompiledTransform.
>>
>> any clues as to what might cause this difference in performance? is one
>> of my results exceptional?
>
> When you call the Load method then XslCompiledTransform compiles the XSLT
> stylesheet to MSIL. That often takes longer than loading with
> XslTransform. On the other hand executing the Transform method, in
> particular several times with a compiled stylesheet, should perform much
> better with XslCompiledTransform.
> See <http://blogs.msdn.com/antosha/archive/2006/07/24/677560.aspx> for
> some detailed comparison.

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