Re: [docbook-apps] gentext.template eats 1/3 of CPU

[Sam Fischmann <sam.fischmann@gmail.com>]

Unfortunately, I have a custom local.l10n.xml that changes the words
used for cross-references. I suppose I can just add this directly to
en.xml instead of my customization layer so that I can take advantage
of this speed boost. I'll report back when I get around to it. I am
very happy to see these changes!

-Sam

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:59 PM, deannelson <deannelson@aol.com> wrote:
> Jirka,
>
> I can confirm a 28% decrease in my compile time with these changes. Wow!
>
> Regards,
> Dean Nelson
>
>
>
> In a message dated 07/20/10 15:45:54 Pacific Daylight Time, jirka@kosek.cz
> writes:
>
> Jirka Kosek wrote:
>
>> New build should appear shortly at
>>
>> http://docbook.sourceforge.net/snapshots/
>>
>> Please give it a try. If similar speedup will appear in other
>> implementations I will call this quite small patch a big DocBook
>> contribution to a "green IT" buzzword ;-)
>
> I have made few additional changes in order to speed up things little
> bit. There are result of small benchmark
>
>            xsltproc (before opt.)    saxon (before opt.)
> mid-size document   4s (11s)          10s (13.5s)
> TDG sources     74s (240s)        60s (100s)
>
> If I would be politician I could say that stylesheets are now 3 times
> faster. ;-) Of course this is true only for very large documents
> processed by xsltproc which seems not very efficient on large input
> documents.
>
> Hopefully this is enough for folks who have resorted to create their own
> forks of stylesheet without localization support.
>
>                Jirka
>
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