DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Chunking performance

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Norman Walsh <>
Date
2002-09-06T23:45:52+00:00
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DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Chunking performance
/ Jeff Beal <> was heard to say:
| Well, I had to go for this one.  I'm building a single book from our
| documentation set using the rootid parameter.  This is our biggest book, and
| creates about 1500 HTML pages.  I am using Saxon 6.52.
|
| StyleSheet				Build Time		Max Memory
| Usage
| =====================================================================
| 1.54.1/chunk.xsl			46 min.		746 MB
| chunk.xsl (chunk.fast=1)	44 min.		983 MB
| chunkfast.xsl			41 min.		1,102 MB
|
| So, it seems to me that the speed improvement isn't worth the extra memory
| usage.

I'm really surprised by those results. Especially for chunkfast.xsl.
Are you getting the message "Computing chunks..." at the beginning of
the run?

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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