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0000786NetSurf[All Projects] Generalpublic2005-03-05 14:422005-03-29 18:15
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PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
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Summary0000786: Slow to Load
DescriptionI don't know whether this is an actual bug, but it
seems worth reporting.

I have two copies of Netsurf on my original-spec
RPC700 (RO 3.60) at present:
'Test Build (01 Jul 2004 23:30)'
and
'Test Build (03 Mar 2005 22:35)'

The older one loads "instantly", and once loaded runs
well and seems stable.

The later one (which I believe is the latest) takes
three and a half minutes
to load! However, once loaded, it runs well, and seems
stable.

Both versions have a file stderr in their folders. The
July 2004 version's
stderr is short:

desktop/netsurf.c netsurf_init 62: version 'Test Build
(01 Jul 2004 23:30)'
desktop/netsurf.c netsurf_init 69: NetSurf on
<riscos>, node <poolejpn.silver.ocn.ne.jp>, release
<3.60>, version <2.02>, machine <arm-acorn>

riscos/gui.c ro_gui_check_resolvers 375:
Inet$Resolvers '203.139.161.40 203.139.160.74 '

The march 2005 version's stderr runs to over 250kB and
commences thus:

desktop/netsurf.c netsurf_init 68: version 'Test Build
(03 Mar 2005 22:35)'
desktop/netsurf.c netsurf_init 75: NetSurf on
<riscos>, node <poolejpn.silver.ocn.ne.jp>, release
<3.60>, version <2.02>, machine <arm-acorn>
rufl_init.c rufl_init 102: old font manager
rufl_init.c rufl_init 111: 508 faces, 99 families
rufl_init.c rufl_load_cache 894:
"AmTypeWrit.Medium2.Italic" not in font list
rufl_init.c rufl_load_cache 894: "ANSI" not in font
list
rufl_init.c rufl_load_cache 894: "ANSI.Oblique" not in
font list
rufl_init.c rufl_load_cache 894: "gothic013.r48" not
in font list
rufl_init.c rufl_load_cache 894: "gothic013.r49" not
in font list
rufl_init.c rufl_load_cache 894: "gothic013.r4a" not
in font list
rufl_init.c rufl_load_cache 894: "gothic013.r4b" not
in font list

etc etc in similar vein until it gets to:

rufl_init.c rufl_init 127: scanning 505
"Warsaw.UltraBold"
rufl_init.c rufl_init 127: scanning 506
"Warsaw.UltraBold.Italic"
rufl_init.c rufl_init 127: scanning 507 "WIMPSymbol"
rufl_init.c rufl_init 154: 334 new charsets
rufl_init.c rufl_save_cache 721: fwrite: 0x2: No such
file or directory
riscos/gui.c ro_gui_check_resolvers 422:
Inet$Resolvers '203.139.161.40 203.139.160.74 '

the last part of which looks similar to the end of the
July 2004 version's
file.

Following this, there's also a lot of what looks like
logs of Web page
accesses, but what's presumably taking up all the time
during loading is the
checking and and scanning of fonts (I've got the
Nuffield Risc OS port of the
Wadalab Japanese fonts on board, so there are rather a
lot of them).

I've attempted to upload the stderr file for the 03
mar 2005 version.

At the moment, the slow loading means that the latest
version of Netsurf is
hard to use on my machine, so I'll stick with the
earlier one for now.

Regards

Michael Poole

poolejpn@silver.ocn.ne.jp
Additional InformationImported from sourceforge bug http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1157281 on Tue Dec 10 17:34:12 2013

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2013-12-10 17:41Vincent SandersNew Issue
2013-12-10 17:41Vincent SandersAssigned To => Sourceforge Import placeholder