Re: [Plplot-devel] Documentation configure speed problem resolved.

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Joao Cardoso wrote:

> On Tuesday 11 March 2003 17:14, Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> > Rafael and I finally found the cause of this problem.  Upgrading the sgml
> > tools installed on my machine increased my docbook configuration speed by
> > literally a factor of 30!
>
> Is this the only issue? From what I understand, if one supplies to configure a
> catalog focused on the needed DTDs, the search will be faster; if by contrary
> the catalog has many entries and the required ones are at the end, the search
> will be slower. I'm right?

I think yes, but it may not be worth going to this extra trouble if you have
a good version of openjade to start with. In my case, the default openjade
for woody actually turned out to be a development version (1.4devel1-8) that
lead to 5-minute catalog searches.  (Rafael confirmed these long times when
he experimentally installed that version as well.  BTW, Rafael, have you
made a bug report about that?) When I installed an older version
(openjade1.3) that search is reduced to a few seconds.  I think you are
right and you could get even smaller search times than that by making your
own catalog, but it is probably not worth it if you already have a version
of openjade that can do fast system catalog searches.

Alan
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