Thank you for the patch! It looks interesting! I'll definitely look at it carefully and apply it to jasper or jasper2 when I have time, most probably sometime next week.
> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 17:09:49 -0400 > From: Duncan McLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [PATCH] possible speed enhancement to JspServlet.java > To: Tomcat Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > MIME-version: 1.0 > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > X-Accept-Language: en,pdf > Delivered-to: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 > X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N > List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > List-Id: "Tomcat Developers List" <tomcat-dev.jakarta.apache.org> > > I'm new to this list (and the jasper code), so please let me know if I've > submitted this incorrectly. > I was doing some profiling of the server side environment that I work on > and noticed that quite a bit of time was being used in the JSP engine. After > further investigation I noticed that each JSP request that comes into the jasper > engine generates a new compiler object and attempt at compilation. As much as 15% > of the time of a JSP request is wasted this way. > The change I made attempts to read the last modified date from the JSP > file being request. A comparison is made against known last modified time > for the current compiled version, if they are different then the code flows > as it used to. If the times are the same then the rest of loadJSP is skipped. > In my test application which relies on calling ~10 jsp files to generate > a single page I found a speed improvement of ~25-50ms (on a PIII 650). > There may be better ways to do this. I concentrated my fix here because > it is where the profiler said the problem was. One drawback of the code I'm > submitting is that if there are a large number of JSP's the Hashtable I use to > store information may get large. However I can't see that being a problem until > a site has >10,000 jsp's. > The change I'm submitting may not be the correct way to approach the > problem. Either way I think this is an issue that deserves some attention so > if someone can suggest a better fix please do. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>