I would be interested in testing it but how do I include speed benchmarks
in my code? sorry about the newbie question.
On Saturday, August 18, 2012 4:00:44 AM UTC+1, Massimo Di Pierro wrote:
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> There are two major speed improvements in trunk and I am not sure whether
> they should go in web2py 2.0 next week.
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> 1) Lazy table (based on ideas from Bruno).
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> db = DAL(...., lazy_tables=True)
> db.define_table('person',Field('name'))
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> the table is instantiated only when db.person is accessed.
> So with some care:
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> Field(...., requires=....) # LAZY (good)
> db.table.field.requires = ... # NOT LAZY (bad)
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> Field('other','reference table') # LAZY (good)
> Field('other',db.table) # NOT LAZY (bad)
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> this may be a big speedup.
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> 2) There is a new implementation of class Storage. This is a most accessed
> object within web2py and now it is 10x faster.
> Yet I am not sure if this breaks something.
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> It would be great if you could try the nightly build (or trunk) and report
> if you experienced any problem.
> It would be even better if you could run some benchmarks of your code
> before and after the changes suggested at 1).
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> Massimo
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