[WM] Webmake performance

[Oliver Strutynski]

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I am currently looking into the possibility of migrating a fairly large German
university sub-site (1000+ pages and growing) from a home-grown perl-based
site generator to a webmake based solution.

I have been able to build a fully functional prototype (not converting the
actual content) pretty fast and was really impressed by how easy it was to
add section-wide table of contents' to the site. I noticed however, that
using webmake the site generation was considerably slower than with the
previous system (factor 10). I also found that the performance is comparable
when re-generating the entire site (-F).

So I stripped down my webmake file and the content files to include no custom
perl code at all and even tried re-compiling the web-site with "-r", no
success. Looking at the source code, I found, that in
DirOfFiles::get_location_contents webmake opens every single file even if the
file has not been changed since the last run and also probably processes the
file with every run. Is there a way to force webmake not to re-generate (and
preferably not even open) these files? From the last run, webmake should know
that these files do not contain any dynamic code (custom tags and similar)
and therefore do not need to be read again.

Thanks for any help

Oliver Strutynski

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 Oliver Strutynski                       oliver.strutynski at in.tum.de
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