[Libreoffice] An Improvement for libreoffice to access a file in disk
Michael Meeks
michael.meeks at novell.com
Thu Mar 17 12:37:52 PDT 2011
Hi Shantong,
First - sorry for the delay in replying; we've been busy finishing
merging the Oracle contributions to LibreOffice from OO.o.
On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 12:58 +0800, shantong kang wrote:
> hi,i modified the code of libreoffice to access the file in
> disk,mainly in sot module and the speed for libreoffice to open a ppt
> file from disk is 25% faster.
Wow - this is brilliant :-)
> I found that when libreoffice reads a byte from the file,it will
> traverse the list of sectors and it is slow. So i use an array to
> save the list.when reading a byte,we can use the array to obtain the
> address of this byte in disk directly.This change wil accelerate the
> process of opening a ppt file from disk.
Okay - sounds interesting; so each time we read a byte we re-scan that
list of sectors ?
So - I'll try to test out the patch, and more importantly createa a
unit test & verify the speedup if not tomorrow, then next week - it
shouldn't miss the 3.4 feature freeze anyhow.
Thanks so much ! what else are you working on ? also what profiling
tools are you using to locate performance hot-spots & how are you
verifying the speedup: is it wall-clock time or ?
Thanks !
Michael.
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