Re: Forrest 0.5 outstanding issues (Re: Cleaning Forrest source directory madness)

[Nicola Ken Barozzi <ni...@apache.org>]

Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote, On 16/06/2003 16.13:

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>>  - Speed!  Need to haul out the profiler and find out why normal Cocoon
>>    CLI rendering is 5-10x faster than Forrest.
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> +1
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> I don't know if/when I'll have time, but I'll surely want to work on this.

Ok, so I ran hprof on it, with the krysalis-site skin ans PDFS, and it 
seems to tell me that most of the time is used in - guess what - in Xalan.

So I though, hey, it's our bl--dy skin that sucks, with wierd templates.
Guess what, this is what I got (all with PDF generation on):

  template:     31 seconds
  krysalis:     35 seconds
  forrest:      34 seconds
  forrest-css:  36 seconds

Wait a sec, it's not only the kind of skin then. It's about the number 
and types of xsl transformations that it has to go through!

So, what I will have to do now is to do a profile on Cocoon, because the 
java one has quite clearly shown that the problem is not in link 
translation or other Forrest-specific component, but in the xsl 
transformations, where they are, and what they do.

Also, IIUC we are still using the old crawling method, is this correct?

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Nicola Ken Barozzi                   nicolaken@apache.org
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