Comment by jkmathes
2 months ago
To show how wild things got w/ XML and XSLT in the early 2000s, I worked for a company that built an ASIC to parse XML at wire speed and process XSLT natively in the chip - because the anticipated future of the internet was all XML/XSLT. Intel bought the company and the guts made their way into the SSE accelerators.
> ASIC to parse XML at wire speed and process XSLT natively in the chip
Just imagine how fast websites would have rendered if we went that route
IBM is still selling hardware that roughly matches your description: DataPower Gateway.
I forgot all about that!