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XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web

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392 points _kush | 1 comments | 27 Jun 25 05:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.586s | source
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jkmathes ◴[27 Jun 25 12:16 UTC] No.44396197[source]▶
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.
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1. Alifatisk ◴[27 Jun 25 13:44 UTC] No.44396772[source]▶
> 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