Excessive run-time about ford HOT 11 CLOSED

I have found FORD to be a bit slow to generate documentation too, but the search pages are really, really beautiful. I was blown away. So, yes it would be nice to make the generation a little bit speedier, but the search functionality is amazing the way it is now and unless I have a massively huge project I am willing to wait.

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Yeah, I'm not proposing to remove the search feature--especially after the effort it took for me to put it in. At most I'd add a switch so it could be turned off if desired. The point of this issue was more to see if there was some way that I could make the generation of search data more efficient.

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Sounds good. My comment was mostly to let you know how amazing FORD is and how beautiful the search functionality is. Optional switch to disable could have its uses for very large projects.

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Well, I'm glad you like it. But I wouldn't be too complimentary until you've seen the source code. It has become increasingly messy and I don't know if anyone other than me could maintain it at this point.

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The search feature is awesome! (Ford is awesome in general. It's already better than other tools that have been around for years!).

I also think a command-line flag to disable generation of the search function would be useful for speeding things up just for testing changes, etc.

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I'll put that in the next minor release, then.

On 01/07/15 11:12 PM, Jacob Williams wrote:

The search feature is awesome! (Ford is awesome in general. It's
already better than other tools that have been around for years!).

I also think a command-line flag to disable generation of the search
function would be useful for speeding things up just for testing
changes, etc.

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I've added the ability to turn off the search feature and it will be out in the next release. Should be out in the next day or three.

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This was fixed in the v4.0.1 release, no?

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Sort of. I put in the option to turn it off, but someday I might still
look if there is some way to generate the search data more efficiently.
Although, when I did this the other day on a big project, it didn't take
that long--maybe beautifulsoup has been optimized somewhat. I guess I
will close this one.

On 05/08/15 11:54 AM, Izaak Beekman wrote:

This was fixed in the v4.0.1 release, no?

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FWIW, with JSON-Fortran the --no-search results in a speedup of over 37%

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Okay, thanks. That's fairly significant, but not as big as speedups I
seem to remember getting when commented out the search stuff after
initially implementing it.

On 05/08/15 12:14 PM, Izaak Beekman wrote:

FWIW, with JSON-Fortran the |--no-search| results in a speedup of over 37%

command real user sys
|time ford -p pages/ json-fortran.md| 33.469s 32.950s 0.504s
|time ford —no-search -p pages/ json-fortran.md| 20.530s 20.322s
0.199s

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