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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Load times for Kword as compared to other WP
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicog () snafu ! de>
Date:       2002-05-29 13:36:39
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On Wednesday 29 May 2002 10:25, David Faure wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 May 2002 08:16, Jonathan Drews wrote:
> > poincare@linux:~/Documents> time kword 1dfre10.txt
> > Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> > kformula: WARNING: No font file read. Using defaults.
> > kformula: WARNING: No font file read. Using defaults.
> >
> > real    4m49.814s
> > user    4m18.160s
> > sys     0m2.460s
>
> Hmm, you have to know that when loading a .txt file, KWord actually
> loads the text twice. First the text import filter converts the text file
> to a .kwd file, then KWord loads that one ;-)
> So there's a way of making the text import much faster: it would need
> to be rewritten to directly feed the text into KWord.... but then we lose
> the advantage of command-line conversion, piping to another filter, etc.

I do not think that it is really the problem, as the test shows that loading 
the KWord version of the same text takes even longer.

>
> > NOTE: Kword "hangs" on shutdown. If I use CTRL C, the catual time is
> > around 52 seconds.
>
> I'm very surprised by that. While it hangs, can you try to attach gdb to it
> (or start it in gdb in the first place), to generate a backtrace, to see
> what it's doing?
> Thanks.

Have a nice day/evening/night!


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