Use descendant-or-self::node() transformation for self, descendant and
descendant-or-self axis. Self axis should be semi-frequent; descendant
axes should not really be used with // but if they ever are the complexity
of the step becomes quadratic so it's better to optimize this if possible.
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When looking for an attribute by name, finding the first attribute means
we can stop looking since attribute names are unique. This makes some
queries faster by 40%.
Another very common pattern in XPath queries is finding an attribute with
a specified value using a predicate (@name = 'value'). While we perform an
optimal amount of traversal in that case, there is a substantial overhead
with evaluating the nodes, saving and restoring the stack state, pushing
the attribute node into a set, etc. Detecting this pattern allows us to
use optimized code, resulting in up to 2x speedup for some queries.
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The actual condition for the optimization is invariance from context list
-- this includes both position() and last().
Instead of splitting the posinv concept just include last() into
non-posinv expressions - this requires sorting for boolean predicates that
depend on last() and do not depend on position(). These cases should be
very rare.
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