[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Issue 5 in liblouisxml: Translating short strings takes an extremely long time and gobbles up CPU if braillePages=yes
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 16:45:29 -0500
liblouisutdml reads an initialization file and configuration file when
it starts. There is also extra processing for very short files. I
haven't noticed unusual delays when using the file2brl program. This
applies to liblouisxml as well.
John
On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 05:42:06PM +0000, liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Comment #1 on issue 5 by mwhapp...@xxxxxxxxx: Translating short strings
> takes an extremely long time and gobbles up CPU if braillePages=yes
> http://code.google.com/p/liblouisxml/issues/detail?id=5
>
> I am fairly confident that the issue does not lie within the python
> bindings. I did a similar measuring of the time as that approach in the
> test script, applying that in the bindings themselves so that only the
> actual call to liblouisxml would be measured. The time reported for the C
> call in the bindings came out as 0.012 for the long string and 270.782 for
> the short string, the test script reported 0.014 for the long string and
> 270.782 for the short string. As the only code between the start time being
> taken and the end time being taken in my modified version of the bindings
> was the if statement where the C call is made and handling should an error
> value be returned, to me this says that other parts of the bindings cannot
> be to blame. The only further test which I think would prove it more is to
> write a simple test C programme.
>
> For a description of the software, to download it and links to
> project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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