On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 06:46:38PM +0100, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 01:21:03PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > >> > I think this is the time to check it in -- with the trivial > >> > renames you propose. We're not close to a trunk release so any > >> > bugs will get ironed out in a timely manner. > >> > >> I'd like to see some performance measures first, lest we paint > >> ourselves into a corner here. > > > > An entirely unscientific test (sitting in front of the computer and > > counting) yields ~4s for loading the UserGuide before applying the patch > > and ~13s afterwards. There is some additional debug output, but I don't > > think the resulting scrolling in the terminal accounts for all of those > > nine extra seconds. > > > > So please: Produce some numbers showing that there are no inacceptable > > regressions wrt to performance. A performance degradation by a factor of > > 3 for loading documents does not look like a good start. > > A small point: when testing we should not limit ourselves to the Userguide. > IMO one of the really strong points of LyX is to be able to deal with huge > documents, like books. (the UG has just 150 pages, it is like a small > book). Btw, we used to test performance with UG20 (just 20 copies of > UserGuide) some time (but I agree that this is kind of extreme, though).
But if a concept does not scale up well it's usually a bad concept. So checking with ug20 is certainly still a vaild approach. Andre'
