Xpath vs DOM vs BeautifulSoup vs lxml vs other Which is the fastest approach to parse a webpage?

Question

I know how to parse a page using Python. My question is which is the fastest method of all parsing techniques, how fast is it from others?

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Answer 1

http://blog.ianbicking.org/2008/03/30/python-html-parser-performance/

Answer 2

lxml was written on C. And if you use x86 it is best chose. If we speak about techniques there is no big difference between Xpath and DOM - it's very quickly methods. But if you will use find or findAll in BeautifulSoup it will be slow than other. BeautifulSoup was written on Python. This lib needs a lot of memory for parse any data and, of course, it use standard search methods from python libs.