Re: size of the XML of IANA ports

2011-10-13 Thread Joe Touch
you're downloading structured data totalling some 15000 records and the browser is rendering it in a conveniently human readable form. Tom Petch Tom Petch - Original Message - From: "Joe Touch" To: "Simon Perreault" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 7:44

Re: size of the XML of IANA ports

2011-10-13 Thread Joel jaeggli
e browser is rendering it in a conveniently human readable form. > Tom Petch > > > > > Tom Petch > > - Original Message - > From: "Joe Touch" > To: "Simon Perreault" > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 7:44 PM > Subject

Re: size of the XML of IANA ports

2011-10-13 Thread t.petch
ginal Message - From: "Joe Touch" To: "Simon Perreault" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 7:44 PM Subject: Re: size of the XML of IANA ports > > > On 10/12/2011 10:28 AM, Simon Perreault wrote: > > As Julian said, what's slow is the browser rendering

Re: size of the XML of IANA ports

2011-10-12 Thread John Levine
>If anyone has any suggestions on how to speedup the rendering part, >please do let me know either on-list of off-list. Break up the version that you get by normal web browsing into multiple interlinked smaller pages, keep the big page available at a fixed address for people who want to download

Re: size of the XML of IANA ports

2011-10-12 Thread Joe Touch
On 10/12/2011 10:58 AM, Simon Perreault wrote: On 2011-10-12 13:44, Joe Touch wrote: Emperically: opening the file from disk = 30 seconds downloading the file from the net = 33 seconds I.e., they're both part of the problem. Turning on gzip transfer encoding in the web server config would

Re: size of the XML of IANA ports

2011-10-12 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2011-10-12 13:44, Joe Touch wrote: > Emperically: > > opening the file from disk = 30 seconds > > downloading the file from the net = 33 seconds > > I.e., they're both part of the problem. Turning on gzip transfer encoding in the web server config would reduce download time by a factor of ~1

Re: size of the XML of IANA ports

2011-10-12 Thread Joe Touch
On 10/12/2011 10:28 AM, Simon Perreault wrote: As Julian said, what's slow is the browser rendering the HTML. More precisely, it's two things: 1. HTML parsing, especially in Safari 2. table layout rendering. Emperically: opening the file from disk = 30 seconds downloading the file from the

Re: size of the XML of IANA ports

2011-10-12 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2011-10-12 12:57, Joe Touch wrote: > I suspect that the delay is because it may be generated on-the-fly, but > haven't been able to confirm that. It may just be network transfer delay. As Julian said, what's slow is the browser rendering the HTML. More precisely, it's two things: 1. HTML parsin

size of the XML of IANA ports

2011-10-12 Thread Joe Touch
Updating the subject line to address a separate question that was raised: FWIW, it's 1 MB of data in a 3.8 MB XML file. I suspect that the delay is because it may be generated on-the-fly, but haven't been able to confirm that. It may just be network transfer delay. Joe On 10/10/2011 2:23 AM,