Re: Good news, testers required

So far so good.

Sasha




On Thursday 04 October 2007 06:14, Andras Mantia wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I finally found the cause of the 3.5.7 slowness. It was introduced by
> some safety checks to avoid crashes in the parser. Unfortunately this
> checks made the parser VERY slow, so no wonder people seeing several
> seconds delays with some bigger documents.
>  I changed the checks, while still keeping them. The result is
> impressive, my big test document (700KB, 12000 lines) parses in about
> 350ms compared to the 3.5.7 version where the same operation took
> 11-14seconds(!). Switching away from this document to an empty one took
> no less than 48-50seconds, while now it is around 60ms.
>  Also the checks were not completely correct, so 3.5.7 could still
> crash. Now 3.5.8 not only that it should be stable, but it should be
> also almost as fast as the previous 3.5.x versions, prior to 3.5.7.
>  3.5.8 will be tagged on Sunday, but I ask those who are used to compile
> from source to download the latest version from the Subversion
> repository[1] and test it. It includes some other fixes as well, and
> may include some more as the week progresses. :)
>
> Andras
>
> [1] http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/faq.php#svn_version :
> "svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/KDE/3.5/kdewebdev"