Re: question on freeing memory with xmlroff

On Thu, Dec 10 2009 00:56:03 +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> I am new to using xmlroff, and we have a doc with 1000 pages, anyone know how
> to regulate

Welcome to xmlroff and the xmlroff-list.

> the memory use of processing the large doc? I was experiment with using
> multiple fo:page-sequence
>
> to break the loop down, but it didn't seem to impact the amount of memory
> xmlroff is cosuming.

xmlroff is not good on memory consumption.  Actually, as you've
observed, it's good at memory consumption and not so good on freeing it.

There is a 'memory' branch in Subversion [1] where I've done some work
on reducing memory, but that branch was based on xmlroff 0.5.3, so
there'll be other differences between it and the current trunk code.

More could be done, e.g., using weak references between the FO tree and
the area tree and having a pool for PangoLayouts.  Unfortunately for
xmlroff, most of my free time at present is taken up with XSL FO 2.0
work.

Regards,


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[1] http://xmlroff.org/browser/branches/memory/xmlroff