Re: modular docbook stylesheets speedup tips?

["Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> | I'm using Jade 1.0.1 and Norman Walsh's docbook stylesheets for
> | processing what is becoming a pretty large manual.  On my system it
> | takes almost _10 minutes_ for Jade to process my document.
> |   Machine: 2x200MHz PPro, 256MB RAM, Linux 2.1.84
> |   Document size: 6988 elements, 399076 bytes
> HTML or print output?
> 
> Are there some big tables in there?
> For HTML, are there a lot of RefEntrys in there?

fwiw, I have a similar system and a similar sized document, with some
small to medium tables and some RefEntrys (~25?) and it takes ~50sec for
HTML and ~24sec for RTF:

  Machine: 2x180MHz PPro, 192MB RAM, Linux 2.0.30

golem$ cat *.sgml | wc
  20096   61790  565924
golem$ time make postgres.html
(rm -rf *.htm)
jade  -D commands -d /home/tgl/SGML/db107.d/docbook/html/docbook.dsl -t
sgml postgres.sgml
(ln -sf book01.htm index.html)
(ln -sf book01.htm postgres.html)
44.790u 0.580s 0:49.95 90.8% 0+0k 0+0io 1571pf+0w

Don't know how to count tags, but I use a few of 'em :)

                 - Tom


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