[poppler] [patch] improving poppler performance

Vincent Torri vtorri at univ-evry.fr
Tue Aug 24 21:49:15 PDT 2010



On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Albert Astals Cid wrote:

> A Dilluns, 23 d'agost de 2010, Paweÿÿ Wiejacha va escriure:
>> Hi,
>
> Hi
>
>> as a part of 'Optimization of Open Source programs' course at my
>> university I wrote some patches which should improve poppler performance.
>>
>> I got 4-38% (avg. 13%) performance increase [1] which for example at my
>> configuration (2 GHz Core2 Duo) sometimes reduces single slide rendering
>> time by 1.2 second.
>> Some patches introduce higher memory consumption (about 9%) and make .so
>> file bigger (about 150KB) but this is controlled by set of #defines.

not nice for embedded devices. But if it can be controlled at configure 
time, no problem

Vincent Torri


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