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diff --git a/doc/todo/optimisations.mdwn b/doc/todo/optimisations.mdwn index 924ff8ffa..4e8118756 100644 --- a/doc/todo/optimisations.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/optimisations.mdwn @@ -2,9 +2,21 @@ times in worst case (8 times if there's an rss feed). The issue is that rendering a page is used to gather info like the links - on the page that can effect rendering other pages. So it needs a - multi-pass system. But rendering the whole page in each pass is rather - obscene. + on the page (and other stuff) that can effect rendering other pages. So it + needs a multi-pass system. But rendering the whole page in each pass is + rather obscene. + + It would be better to have the first pass be a data gathering pass. Such + a pass would still need to load and parse the page contents etc, but + wouldn't need to generate html or write anything to disk. + + One problem with this idea is that it could turn into 2x the work in + cases where ikiwiki currently efficiently renders a page just once. And + caching between the passes to avoid that wouldn't do good things to the + memory footprint. + + Might be best to just do a partial first pass, getting eg, the page links + up-to-date, and then multiple, but generally fewer, rendering passes. * Don't render blog archive pages unless a page is added/removed. Just changing a page doesn't affect the archives as they show only the title. |