[Typo3-dev] XML vs. Serialized Arrays

[Ries van Twisk]

Hey Bernard,

thanks for the tip!!!
I'll try this myself today since I also have high parse times on my site 
reaching at 9-10 seconds....
I'll lett you know later today...

cheers,
Ries

> Hallo list,
>
> I'm making an extension currently which makes heavy use of FlexForms 
> (10-100 Fields in each sheet,
> 1-10 sheets)
>
> It is clear that the larger the DS and the corresponding Data XML gets 
> the longer it takes to parse
> them.
>
> So I inserted
> $start = microtime()
> statements at the beginning and end of t3lib_div::xml2array and 
> array2xml to check how long those
> functions take ....
>
> I then replaced the xml2array and array2xml functions with calls to 
> serialize and unserialize:
>
>
> Here are some numbers:
>
> Initializing the DS and Data XML by my selfwritten Ext:
> Traditional: 7.85sec
> Serialize: 1.817sec (here are still some/few traditional XML included)
>
> Initializing the Data values via TCE Forms
> Trad: 2.685sec
> Ser: 0.059sec
>
> Loading my selfwritten Ext which displays the Flexform:
> Trad: 0.98sec
> Ser: 0.020sec
>
> Saving
> Trad: 7.93sec
> Ser: 0,077sec
>
>
>
> Is there any plan to make a checkbox in the Install Tool: ( ) Fast 
> FlexForms ???
>
> I know this would make it very bad to debug FlexForms but this is 
> nothing the normal User does.
> (Normally just devlopers look at the generated XML)
>
> A solution to the problem of "editability" could be that you just 
> deserialize and orig_array2xml the data
> for editing and afterwards orig_xml2array and serializ it.
>
>
>
> greets,
> Bernhard



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