lxml findall and xpath performance

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Update: lxml got quite a bit faster since this entry, see Update: lxml got quite a bit faster since this entry, see herehere.. I've been testing I've been testing findall()findall() performance on etree versus ElementTree/cElementTree. cElementTree and even ElementTree are quite a bit faster than lxml.etree at this stage. Possible causes of performance loss: performance on etree versus ElementTree/cElementTree. cElementTree and even ElementTree are quite a bit faster than lxml.etree at this stage. Possible causes of performance loss: lxml.etree has to maintain proxy objects over the underlying libxml2...lxml.etree has to maintain proxy objects over the underlying libxml2...