From: ori@eigenstate.org
To: jamos@oboj.net, 9front@9front.org
Cc: jonas@amoson.se
Subject: Re: [9front] Plan 9 buffered IO vs APE stdio in netsurf
Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 15:22:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D506DD1E7776D2BDFCCA29F5193E8B28@eigenstate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35c584755d7907bfe42ec3b9002a7c43@oboj.net>
> Folks, I have made experiments using plan 9 buffered IO (bio) for the
> logger in netsurf, in place of the standard APE stdio logging. If run in
> verbose mode (-v) directing stderr to a separate window, my time from
> start to a loaded welcome screen is down by 50% (from 2 sec to 1 sec) if
> I run locally on my laptop. If I run over my WAN link, the startup time
> is almost 10 times lower (from 6 min to 38 sec). The downside is that it
> induces changes to an otherwise working upstream file
> (nsport/netsurf/utils/log.c).
>
> Is it worth it? I very much like bio speed, but am trying to patch the
> upstream source as little as possible.
>
> Jonas
It's up to you -- are you comfortable maintaining this diff against
upstream? If you are, go for it.
(The other question: why are we logging so much that this matters? Can
we shut things up, at least when not debugging?)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-16 22:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-16 10:02 jamos
2020-05-16 22:22 ` ori [this message]
2020-05-17 9:02 ` [9front] " Steve Simon
2020-05-17 10:14 ` jamos
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