Daniel Dekany wrote: > I edit a ~1MB DocBook 5 XML. Me many others have a good habbit of > often unconsciously pressing Ctrl+S. That will block me in work for > several seconds; very inconvenient. I wonder what takes so long. Could > this process be optimized somewhat? From the footer messages I > conclude it's not even the validation, and writing out 1MB of XML, > even indented and like, couldn't possibly take so long. (Ideally, > saving should happen in parallel with editing, but certainly that > would requite copy-on-write capability on the in-memory document > representation.) >
--> Saving a DocBook 5 (RELAX NG) document as an indented file was slow, but the problem is solved now. It's 10 times faster than before[*]. Example: * Using default options: indentation, references to char. entities, etc, saving a 2,274,219 bytes long DocBook 4 document takes less than 600ms on my Linux laptop (having a slow disk drive like most laptops). * Saving the same document but converted to DocBook 5 now also takes less than 600ms. --> We now find that *loading* this large DocBook 5 document takes an excessively long time compared to its DocBook 4 variant. We'll try to improve this situation too. --- [*] No hacks, no heuristics, simply replacing a very small piece of code which bypassed our incremental validator.
