[sword-devel] SwordReader PocketPC and SmartPhone CAB files.

[Ben Morgan]

That was for the whole of the ESV.

Machine specs were something like:
1.67GHz processor with 490MB RAM under WinXP.
Its a few years old.

This was done from python.

God Bless,
Ben
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The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness,
but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish,
but that all should reach repentance.
2 Peter 3:9 (ESV)

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 12:31 AM, David Trotz <dtrotzjr at crosswire.org> wrote:

> Ben,
> For reference what verses did you use for this example, and what were
> the machine specs?
> David
>
> Ben Morgan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > There are two things to note here:
> > a) the ESV is a compressed module (uses the zText driver).
> > The zText driver is quite a bit slower than the rawtext one (around
> > 20-30x slower!)
> > Here are the times taken to getRawEntry for a compressed and
> > uncompressed ESV:
> > uncompressed: 1.89 seconds (this is a good length of time)
> > compressed: 40.461 seconds (this isn't)
> >
> > This is a tad depressing - especially since all new modules seem to be
> > being compressed.
> >
> > b) the osishtmlhref filter is quite slow.
> > It took 72 seconds to render the text got above. The plain filter took
> > 10 seconds.
> >
> > Also, just because a tag is stored inline doesn't mean its faster to
> > leave it on. If it is turned off, the tag will be stripped out, which
> > should be a good deal quicker than processing it.
> >
> > God Bless,
> > Ben
> >
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> > The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness,
> > but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish,
> > but that all should reach repentance.
> > 2 Peter 3:9 (ESV)
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Troy A. Griffitts
> > <scribe at crosswire.org <mailto:scribe at crosswire.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     David,
> >
> >     You of all people should know this... :)  SWORD stores all the tags
> >     inline in the text.  When you start turning things OFF is when all
> the
> >     filters have to do work to remove things.  If everything is left on,
> >     then the text is just handed back as it was stored.  I'm still not
> >     convinced. :)
> >
> >            -Troy.
> >
> >
> >
> >     David Trotz wrote:
> >     > Troy,
> >     >> Just a note regarding the comment that the SWORD engine take >
> >     6 seconds
> >     >> to render psalm119...
> >     >>
> >     >> If this is the case there is a bug somewhere.
> >     >>
> >     > Perhaps there is a bug, because...
> >     >> It usually takes < 6 seconds to render an entire Bible to a
> >     file on a
> >     >> low end PC, which I'm guessing is about the same power as
> >     todays handhelds.
> >     >>
> >     >> My guess is that the extreme amount of tags in the text is
> >     taking the
> >     >> HTML renderer the time.
> >     >>
> >     > ... it takes my HTML renderer very little time (1s for Psalm 119
> >     w/ full
> >     > markup in ESV) to render any given text. I have tested this by
> >     > preloading text from a file then shoving it into the HTML
> >     renderer. But
> >     > as soon as we start to query sword for text from a module we take a
> >     > significant performance hit. Its only if I turn off all the extra
> >     > features in the text such as strong's numbers or footnotes in
> >     ESV that
> >     > things are very fast. Perhaps you can look at how we are pulling
> >     text
> >     > from sword and see if there is something wrong with our
> methodology?
> >     >> Just trying to pass the buck until someone PROVES to me that we
> >     need
> >     >> optimization in the engine. :)
> >     >>
> >     > I understand that all too well. ;-)
> >     >
> >     > BTW have you given it a run on your new smartphone?
> >     >
> >     > In Christ,
> >     > David Trotz
> >     >
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