Re: Multi Threaded engine

[J.Pietschmann]

Am 31.08.2012 16:11, schrieb Theresa Jayne Forster:
 I was wondering whether
 there was any plans or the ability to quickly scan the external links and
 then using multiple threads to get the images in parallel to reduce the
 download and creation time.

Definitely an interesting idea, but there's nobody working on it. I'll
open a low-priority bug so that it wont be forgotten, I also suspect
if this is properly implemented also local image loading might become
faster.

However, loading remotetly stored images will always be quite a bit
slower than locally stored images. Running a kind of local cache is
highly recommended.

J.Pietschmann


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Multi Threaded engine

[Theresa Jayne Forster]

I would like to know is anyone working on a multi threaded version of fop, 

 

The thing that I discovered was that when creating a PDF with lots of images
if the images are using external links then it tends to take a long time to
actually get them and put them into a document, I was wondering whether
there was any plans or the ability to quickly scan the external links and
then using multiple threads to get the images in parallel to reduce the
download and creation time.

 

Example:

 

Document using external image links : 3 minutes.

Document preparation (xml-fo processing ) 1 second

Image Download 2 minutes 53 seconds

Fo- PDF : 6 seconds

 

Splitting that down 

All images downloading in parallel 8 seconds:

In Series 2 minutes 53 seconds

 

So if the images were cached in parallel then the time would drop from 3
minutes to 15 seconds processing time.

 

Theresa