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I think there is a problem in my "dependency graph". As an example,
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[here](http://poivron.org/~nil/misc/ikiwiki_buggy_index) is the index
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ikiwiki generated for [my site](http://poivron.org/~nil/misc/ikiwiki_buggy_index)
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(note that the site changed since this index was generated).
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Some **HUGE** dependencies appear, clearly non optimal, like
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depends = A｜ B | A | C | A | D | A | E | A | F | A | G | ....
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or
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depends= A | B | C | D | A | B | C | D | A | B | C | D | ....
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Couldn't isolate the cause, but some sources for this problem may be:
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* related to the img module
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* easily observable in my sire because one of my pages includes 80 resized images
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Other special things in my templates and site:
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* a sidebar with \[[include pages="notes/\*" template=foo]] while notes.mdwn has
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a \[[include pages="notes/*"]] and uses the sidebar; removed it, doesn't change
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* a template (biblio.tmpl) calling the "img" plugin with a template parameter as the
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image filename; removed it, doesn't change
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* some strange games with tags whose page calls a "map" directive to show other tags
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shile tags are also used in tagclouds (in the sidebar and in the main pages)
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* ...
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I observed these problems (same *kind*, I didn't check in details) on
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* ikiwiki 2.00gpa1 + v5.8.4 + Debian 3.1
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* ikiwiki 2.3 + v5.8.8 + Ubuntu 7.04
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I can think about reducung the size of my wiki source and making it available online for analysis.
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-- NicolasLimare
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> As long as these dependencies don't grow over time (ie, when a page is
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> edited and nothing changed that should add a dependency), I wouldn't
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> worry about them. There are many things that can cause non-optimal
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> dependencies to be recorded. For one thing, if you inline something, ikiwiki
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> creates a dependency like:
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> (PageSpec) or (file1 or file2 or file3 ...)
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>
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> Where fileN are all the files that the PageSpec currently matches. (This
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> is ncessary to detect when a currently inlined file is deleted, and know
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> the inlining page needs an update.) Now consider what it does if you have
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> a single page with two inline statements, that inline the same set of
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> stuff twice:
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> ((PageSpec) or (file1 or file2 or file3 ...) or (PageSpec) or (file1 or file2 or file3 ...)
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> Clearly non-optimal, indeed.
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> Ikiwiki doesn't bother to simplify complex PageSpecs
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> because it's difficult to do, and because all they use is some disk
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> space. Consider what ikiwiki uses these dependencies for.
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> All it wants to know is: does the PageSpec for this page it's considering
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> rebuilding match any of the pages that have changed? Determining this is
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> a simple operation -- the PageSpec is converted to perl code. The perl
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> code is run.
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>
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> So the total impact of an ugly dependency like this is:
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> 1. Some extra data read/written to disk.
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> 2. Some extra space in memory.
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> 3. A bit more data for the PageSpec translation code to handle. But that
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> code is quite fast.
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> 4. Typically one extra function call when the generated perl code is run.
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> Ie, when the expression on the left-hand side fails, which typically
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> happens after one (inexpensive) function call, it has to check
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> the identical expression on the right hand side.
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> So this is at best a wishlist todo item, not a bug. A PageSpec simplifier
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> (or improved `pagespec_merge()` function) could be written and improve
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> ikiwiki's memory and disk usage, but would it actually speed it up any?
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> We'd have to see the code to the simplifier to know.
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>
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> --[[Joey]]
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[[tag wishlist]]
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