Re: Report about converting my home site from wml to Template Toolkit
Hi all,
On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 14:20:50 +0300
Shlomi Fish <shlomif@shlomifish.org> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> TL;DR: a partial conversion of the https://www.shlomifish.org/ 's sources from
> WML to [Template Toolkit 2](http://template-toolkit.org/) appears to have sped
> up the rendering, and also uncovered some broken content errors, but is/was
> very time consuming.
>
I have now completed the transition and rebased wml2tt into master. Here are
the benchmarks of the rebuild command:
```
───────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
│ File: /home/shlomif/Arcs/homepage.old1.time.txt
───────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
1 │ 618.85user 52.79system 3:41.05elapsed 303%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 265704
│ maxresident)k
2 │ 944inputs+1483776outputs (1major+10228537minor)pagefaults 0swaps
───────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
───────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
│ File: /home/shlomif/Arcs/homepage.old2.time.txt
───────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
1 │ 622.54user 53.48system 3:43.66elapsed 302%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 257388
│ maxresident)k
2 │ 256inputs+1484432outputs (1major+10222451minor)pagefaults 0swaps
───────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
───────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
│ File: /home/shlomif/Arcs/homepage.new1.time.txt
───────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
1 │ Command exited with non-zero status 2
2 │ 567.50user 40.99system 3:47.31elapsed 267%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 348052
│ maxresident)k
3 │ 17656inputs+1482280outputs (1major+7554065minor)pagefaults 0swaps
4 │ 538.25user 40.95system 3:36.40elapsed 267%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 298024
│ maxresident)k
5 │ 864inputs+1482160outputs (0major+7424093minor)pagefaults 0swaps
───────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
───────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
│ File: /home/shlomif/Arcs/homepage.new2.time.txt
───────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
1 │ 510.89user 39.69system 3:17.28elapsed 279%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 256244
│ maxresident)k
2 │ 520inputs+1482264outputs (0major+7173419minor)pagefaults 0swaps
───────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
```
like I said, the build process has quite a bit of overhead. I have since
implemented some improvements.
> ---
>
> My home site's sources ( https://github.com/shlomif/shlomi-fish-homepage ) are
> quite large (but probably much smaller than
> https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/ ) and also has used
> [WML](https://github.com/thewml/website-meta-language) along with other
> technologies (some of which were created by me and made FOSS). A full rebuild
> of the site currently takes about 4 minutes on my sandy bridge Core i3 machine
> and it used to be much worse, before it was optimised.
>
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