Re: [lmi] PDF generation performance

[Murphy, Kimberly]

Greg Chicares wrote:
 
> On 2018-02-02 17:17, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> >
> >  While testing the pagination anomaly bug, I couldn't help
> noticing how
> > awfully long PDF generation took for the census used to reproduce
> the
> > problem. With the (optimized) MSVS build, it took ~40 seconds and
> while I
> > didn't measure it exactly with MinGW, it doesn't seem to be any
> faster.
> 
> Running the following commands, each followed by loading that file
> and
> pressing Ctrl-Shift-I, the timings noted on the statusbar are as
> follows
> on my machine:
> 
> wine ./lmi_wx_shared --ash_nazg --data_path=/opt/lmi/data --
> pyx=only_old_pdf
> 15403 milliseconds
> 
> wine ./lmi_wx_shared --ash_nazg --data_path=/opt/lmi/data --
> pyx=only_new_pdf
> 14875 milliseconds
> 
> However, because the 'java' msw installer fails here, the "old" runs
> don't actually invoke 'fop'; if they did, the "new" code would
> surely
> be much faster than the "old".
> 
> I could probably boot an old version of GNU/Linux where that
> software
> did install, and measure it there; but it's easier to wait until
> Monday
> and ask Kim to run both ways in the same msw environment that end
> users
> have. (That'll also be more accurate, because the "anti-malware"
> suite
> and the hardware will be more representative of typical users.)

Here are my results running the file in the manner similar as end 
users:

lmi_wx_shared.exe --ash_nazg --pyx=only_old_pdf
39334 milliseconds

lmi_wx_shared.exe --ash_nazg --pyx=only_new_pdf
19914 milliseconds


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