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Comment by nicoburns

7 hours ago

How does it compare to the original in terms of source code size (number of lines of code?)

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jawiggins  6 hours ago

It's significantly smaller. Because Rust doesn't require header files or memory management, xmloxide is ~40k lines while libxml2 is ~150k lines.

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