On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 09:00:17AM +0000, Brian Bailey wrote: > 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-)
Out of interest what speed do you get if you set "incremental_reflow:0" in the Choices file? It may be a case your hardware really is simply too slow to support that feature and is spending so long redrawing that it is not spending long enough fetching.. -- Regards Vincent http://www.kyllikki.org/
