On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Alexander Lakhin <a.lak...@postgrespro.ru>
wrote:

> Hello, Peter.
>
> I've managed to speed up html generation from xml (make xslthtml) from 32
> min. (in my environment) to 4 min. by modifying slowest XSL templates.
> All my modifications incorporated in a single file
> stylesheet-xhtml-speedup.xsl, which is included in stylesheet.xsl.
> I performed optimization by analyzing output of:
> xsltproc --profile --stringparam pg.version '9.6devel' stylesheet.xsl
> postgres.xml
> Initial statistics:
> number               match                name      mode Calls Tot 100us
> Avg
>
>     0             appendix label.markup
> 23090 90677526   3927
>     1              chapter label.markup
> 28870 39740757   1376
>     2 chunk-all-sections             1289 23845066  18498
>     3                     make.legalnotice.head.links
> 2578 9630258   3735
>     4            indexterm reference   2579 4126513   1600
>     5 html.head             1289 3112534   2414
> ...
> index % time    self  children    called     name
>                 0.479 1326.034     22/23090     toc.line [61]
>                 5.128 1308.245  21944/23090 sect1[label.markup] [13]
>                 3.772 1318.264    850/23090 substitute-markup [15]
>                 1.355 1304.631    274/23090
> figure|table|example[label.markup] [32]
> [0]    47.95  906.775    1.613  23090 appendix[label.markup] [0]
>                 1.613    0.000  23090/23090 autolabel.format [29]
> -----------------------------------------------
>                 5.128 1308.245  24708/28870 sect1[label.markup] [13]
>                 0.479 1326.034    130/28870     toc.line [61]
>                 3.772 1318.264   2112/28870 substitute-markup [15]
>                 1.355 1304.631   1920/28870
> figure|table|example[label.markup] [32]
> [1]    21.01  397.408    1.613  28870 chapter[label.markup] [1]
>                 1.613    0.000  28870/28870 autolabel.format [29]
> -----------------------------------------------
>                 0.164  238.606   1289/1289 process-chunk-element [98]
> [2]    12.61  238.451    0.225   1289 chunk-all-sections [2]
>                 0.225    7.117   1289/1289 process-chunk [86]
> -----------------------------------------------
>                31.125  112.261   1289/2578      html.head [5]
>                96.303   96.726   1289/2578 make.legalnotice.head.links [3]
> [3]     5.09   96.303   96.726   2578 make.legalnotice.head.links [3]
>                96.303   96.726   1289/3867 make.legalnotice.head.links [3]
>                 0.339    0.494   1289/3867 *[object.title.markup.textonly]
> [69]
>                 0.085    0.781   1289/3867 ln.or.rh.filename [116]
>
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>
> Currrent statistics:
> number               match                name      mode Calls Tot 100us
> Avg
>
>     0 chunk-all-sections             1289 5405958   4193
>     1                     make.legalnotice.head.links
>                                                            1289 3159538
>  2451
>     2 html.head             1289 3068417   2380
>     3                         gentext.template 689835 2327761      3
>     4                            l10n.language 564453 1455253      2
>     5 href.target            29881 1344063     44
> ---
> index % time    self  children    called     name
>                 0.136   54.207   1289/1289 process-chunk-element [95]
> [0]    20.40   54.060    0.312   1289 chunk-all-sections [0]
>                 0.312    6.468   1289/1289 process-chunk [67]
> -----------------------------------------------
>                30.684   45.458   1289/1289      html.head [2]
> [1]    11.92   31.595    0.448   1289 make.legalnotice.head.links [1]
>                 0.290    0.403   1289/2578 *[object.title.markup.textonly]
> [71]
>                 0.159    0.828   1289/2578 ln.or.rh.filename [91]
> -----------------------------------------------
>                 0.330   31.617   1289/1289 chunk-element-content [65]
> [2]    11.58   30.684   45.458   1289     html.head [2]
>                31.595    0.448   1289/15462 make.legalnotice.head.links [1]
>                13.441    4.726   5153/15462 href.target [5]
>                 0.290    0.403   5153/15462
> *[object.title.markup.textonly] [71]
>                 0.115    1.576   1289/15462 head.content [99]
>                 0.012    0.000   1289/15462 system.head.content [186]
>                 0.006    0.000   1289/15462 user.head.content [228]
>
> To make sure that result of the transformation is the same, I've compared
> original .html's with .html's generated with modified templates.
> Unfortunately xslt generates random id's, so it's needed to exclude them
> before comparing. I do that with:
> for f in */*.html; do sed -e
> 's/id=\"\(ftn\.\)\?id[a-z][0-9]\+\"/id=\"id\"/g' -i $f ; sed -e
> 's/href=\"[^#]*#\(ftn\.\)\?id[a-z][0-9]\+\"/href=\"#\"/g' -i $f; done
>
>
> So if it's acceptable way to speed up generation of HTML (and maybe some
> other formats), what other steps should we take to move away from SGML?
> If the performance is still not satisfying, please let me know, I'll
> continue to optimize xslt.
> Beside performance issues, I can see some difference in results of 'make
> html' and 'make xslthtml'. For example, see doc/src/sgml/html/spi.html
> (xslt-generated version doesn't contain the lists of functions).
>
> Best regards,
> Alexander


I think this is great result  and it's worth to start moving to xml. I want
to note, that it's 21-th century  and we should think about including
pictures into our documentation, which will greatly improve it. XML makes
this easier.



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> 06.04.2015 23:02, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
>> On 4/2/15 5:22 PM, Luzanov Pavel wrote:
>>
>>> Peter,
>>>
>>>
>>> I found this message in archives:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/519c3d99.9000...@gmx.net#519c3d99.9000...@gmx.net
>>>
>>>
>>> and, as you recommend, tested a speed of building docs on a fresh Ubuntu
>>> installation.
>>>
>>> 50sec for make html
>>> and 14min 50sec for make xslthtml
>>> 17 times slower!
>>>
>>>
>>> Is it still a main stopper for moving to XML?
>>>
>> Yes :)
>>
>>
>>
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