I will handle a huge XML file and I will go with XMLReader. Below are three ways to go with, but I need to know which one is the fastest. How can I know this? The planet.xml file is located at http://trash.chregu.tv/planet-big.xml.bz2 in case hat you may need it. Thank you!
You might want to consider the PHP profiling extension:
You can examine the results with pprofp: