In my experience, editing the DOM is very fast. If you are seeing slowness it's probably from doing huge numbers of these operations at once. So my advice would be to perform a handful of operations at a time, giving the main event loop time to run in between.
Mike. On 21 Jun 2010, at 11:50, Matej Bukovinski wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm using WebKit to download a bunch of websites. On those sites I need to > perform some basic DOM tree operations (e.g., removing some DOM nodes). > WebKit makes this very straightforward by using elements such as DOMNodes to > represent the document three. The problem is that those operations can be > time intensive and I would need them to be performed in a background thread. > Unfortunately WebKit makes it very clear that it is not thread save (it even > throws exceptions if you don't perform operations on the main thread). > > Does anyone have a suggestion how one would modify a HTML DOM on a background > thread? Perhaps some other framework that would allow me to construct a DOM > tree from HTML source code and have basic tree operation support? I guess > WebKit2 is/will be thread safe, but it's pre-production code and I would like > to avoid using unstable code. > > Thank you, > Matej_______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/cocoadev%40mikeabdullah.net > > This email sent to cocoa...@mikeabdullah.net _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
