So, a ~35MB XML file containing eight different types of records, something in the region of 50,000 of them in total (that's just a guesstimate, as I'm only parsing half of the types at this point), takes about four minutes to parse on my MBA. That's in Python with lxml, and I'm stuffing them into a PostgreSQL DB via Django's ORM. Not that bad, really, all things considered  
							
						
					 
							
						
 
							
						 
							
						
 And wot a morning it is too.
And wot a morning it is too.  ), he noted the presence of the irritating twat with the pad & the giant earphones bopping away to himself.
), he noted the presence of the irritating twat with the pad & the giant earphones bopping away to himself. 
				 
				 
				 
				
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