William,
while 10% may well be the average over all cases, I think that in some
(real) situations, caching would help a lot more. Also, why lose the
10%?
Tom
Lee, William wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm not sure whether oversee the problem or not, but from the profiling
> results I got, caching the style sheet will improve the performance by
> 10%...
>
> Loading the Style Sheet into the Tree structure --- 10%
> Loading the Input Document into the Tree structure --- 10%
> Processing & Transforming --- 80%
>
> What I try to say is, if this is true, maybe we should start thinking of
> other ways to improve the performance.
>
> Thanks.
> William.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kaiserovi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: November 6, 2000 1:23 PM
> To: Sablotron Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Sab] Sablotron Performance - we want/need caching
>
> Derek,
>
> thanks a lot for the offer! Without such help, we'd still like to
> implement caching ASAP, but then again, there's a lot of pressing stuff.
> So if anyone agrees to do a part of the work, it's very welcome and
> certainly will speed things up.
>
> I guess that the approach suggested by David should suffice: there'd be
> a function that would parse a document on demand and return a pointer.
> The pointer could be handed on to SablotProcess instead of a URI (by
> means of a struct that could hold one or the other).
>
> This might or might not be complemented by the concept I described
> earlier: on demand, a URI would be added to or removed from the list
> containing things meant to be cached. This might be easier to use, but
> probably would not be applicable to in-memory buffers. I'll appreciate
> your opinions on whether this would be worth the work, as well as any
> other comments.
>
> The implementation work can start as soon as we reach an agreement about
> the overall features.
>
> Thanks again,
> Tom
>
> "Sayeau, Derek" wrote:
> >
> > Is there any plans to implement the discussed caching methods in near
> future
> > releases of sablotron? We would be willing to assist, if necessary.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -derek
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Hedbor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 10:59 PM
> > To: Sablotron Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [Sab] Sablotron Performance - we want/need caching
> >
> > Kaiserovi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Yes this sounds reasonable; there should be a function to parse a
> > > document and return a pointer to its tree in any case. We'd have to have
> > > several versions of each of the processing functions though:
> > > SablotRunProcessor, SablotProcess etc. (you might want to pass in a
> > > preparsed stylesheet, or the XML, or both) - or is there a more elegant
> > > way?
> >
> > Pass a struct which can contain a filename/url, the data or
> > the preprocessed data, with a union for the data and something to
> > indicate the type of the data?
> >
> > --
> > [ Below is a random fortune, which is unrelated to the above message. ]
> > No matter where I go, the place is always called "here".
