RE: [docbook-apps] The compiled Saxon DocBook stylesheets doesn'tspeed anything??

[Tapanainen Mika <Mika.Tapanainen@digia.com>]

No. From the xml to fo is the slowest part currently. 
For the fastest xsl-fo processor it takes 13.9 seconds to transform from fo to pdf.

To transform xml to fo takes 25 seconds with the compiled stylesheets and 26 seconds with the un-compiled stylesheets. So
It is only 3% faster to use the compiled stylesheets. So why it is possible it is so slow to use the compiled stylesheets?

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jirka Kosek [mailto:jirka@kosek.cz] 
>Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 11:15 AM
>To: Tapanainen Mika
>Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
>Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] The compiled Saxon DocBook 
>stylesheets doesn't speed anything??
>
>Tapanainen Mika wrote:
>> There is no network traffic, all files are in my laptop.
>> 
>> My target pdf has 324 pages.
>
>Well, so your build times correspond to generating .pdf files, not just
>.fo files? If so then times are not surprise to me, the most of time is
>spent by formatting .fo to resulting PDF. It doesn't make sense to
>optimize step in your toolchain if it is not the slowest one.
>
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