For some anecdotal evidence, when I had this exact
requirement for the Sudoku Solver [1] and switched from
$seq[position() > 1] to subsequence($seq, 2) the performance
increase was significant.
I've run it with both variations and I'm seeing no significant difference at
all between the two cases.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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