In article <20110321163550.gg4...@rjek.com>, Rob Kendrick <r...@netsurf-browser.org> wrote:
[snip] > > > > >I am intrigued by the successive improvement and development of > > >Netsurf. Periodically I load a personal favourite page in Wikepedia, > > >just to see what changes are apparent in performance. It would seem > > >that loading and rendering of that page does indeed vary. > > > > > >To what extent can one expect verbose logging to slow things down (I > > >use a rather slow machine, which I am not going to change this side > > >of Christmas). Is it possible to turn verbose logging on/off. > > > > Not tested, but in the !Run file near the bottom is the following line: > > > > Run <NetSurf$Dir>.!RunImage -v %*0 2><Wimp$ScrapDir>.WWW.NetSurf.Log > > > > If you put a | before the <Wimp$ScrapDir>.WWW.NetSurf.Log that should > > disable the logging. With a copy of r12120, I put a | before -v in the expectation that logging would be completely turned off. Three lines only were recorded in the log file, related to fonts, in this case. > > > > Unless their is anything in the Netsurf code itself that expects to > > write to the log it should work, but I'm offering no guarantees. > Remove the -v flag. That is what enables verbose logging. Note that > this simply stops NetSurf formatting and emitting the log data. It will > still involve checking "do I need to log this?" Thanks, Rob. I also removed the -v flag, without putting an | anywhere. NetSurf seemed to be entirely stable in both cases. As far as I could tell, there was no discernible, subjective change in time in loading and rendering files, in either case. I guess that I must accept that my machine /is/ rather slow. But, as I am retired I can make endless cups of tea whilst things happen. 8-) Brian
