Re: [docbook-apps] How to improve the build speed with saxon 6.X /docbook

[Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre.ledru@inria.fr>]

Le vendredi 11 septembre 2009 à 06:13 +0100, Dave Pawson a écrit :
> On 10/09/09 13:09, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am currently trying to improve the build time of the documentation of
> > a free scientific software (Scilab).
> >
> > There are almost 1800 XML files. The size of these files is between 1 k
> > to 10 k.
> > Before calling saxon, some processing is done (mathml =>  png through
> > jeuclid, etc) and finally merged all of them into a single file [1].
> > This file is processed against chunk.xsl or javahelp.xsl from
> > docbook-xsl. Both are taking a long time (pretty much the same).
> >
> > However, the build time is way too long (between 30m to 60m on a
> > powerfull computer to hours on a small CPU). Especially for some small
> > architectures like s390 or armel... For example, Debian compilation
> > chains are killing the process since it is taking more than 150 minutes,
> > just to "load" the XML.
> >
> > Therefor, I am trying to improve the speed of the process.
> > I wonder if there are any tricks to improve the speed. Some people told me that the merge of all xml files
> > is not necessary but I haven't been able to find how to do it.
> 
> 
> Have you tried compiling the stylesheets using the saxon option?
> Not something I've done, nor something I've heard being done on this 
> list, but definitely should show an improvement
I am going to try. Do you have any pointer/documentation on this ?

Thanks
Sylvestre