[TYPO3-dev] Extbase extension performance

[François Suter]

Hi Tomiţă,

> I am building an extbase extension that imports from a CSV file>  100.000
> records, reading line by line and adding object by object to the
> repository. But that never finishes as it takes way too long, 30 k records
> in 20 minutes and still running.
> Is it a better way to do it or should I just switch to the classic
> exec_INSERTquery functions as it worked much better this way than using
> extbase.

As explained by Elmar, Extbase is not really suited to this kind of 
task. Maybe you should take a look at extension external_import [1], 
which is designed for this.

HTH

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Francois Suter
Cobweb Development Sarl - http://www.cobweb.ch

[1] http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/external_import