Re: [basex-talk] Puzzled by timing difference of two similar queries

On Mon, 2024-07-15 at 08:24 +0200, Bernhard Liebl wrote:

for $seq in doc("data.xml")//seq

You could try changing this to doc("data.xml")/seqs/seq so that it doesn't have to look at every item element to see if it's a seq element. It'll also likely run faster if you load the data into the database instead of using doc(), as then there will presumably be an element index.

I also notice the time to compile and optimize the query was longer for the second run. Maybe the computer was low on memory?

liam