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class=400240507-29032010>Sorry, I can't help you with your question but I
would also like to know the answer if this is a common behaviour. I
checked with my mapfile which has about 2000 lines and parsing time is something
like 0.1 seconds on Windows. How long is your "quite a long
mapfile"?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=400240507-29032010>I
suppose that making parsing faster would mean that there should be some
kind of cache or then a super fast disk. Is anybody using ramdisks
nowadays?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=400240507-29032010>-Jukka
Rahkonen-</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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[mailto:mapserver-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <B>Puolesta </B>Erdem
Guven<BR><B>Lähetetty:</B> 25. maaliskuuta 2010 17:47<BR><B>Vastaanottaja:</B>
mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org<BR><B>Aihe:</B> [mapserver-users] Why mapfile
parsing is so slow on Windows<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Hello,<BR><BR>I have a quite long mapfile. On Linux it takes about
2.5 seconds to draw an image but on Windows it takes more than 10 seconds.
<BR><BR>I used same source (5.6.1) and same configuration parameters to
compile on both platforms. <BR><BR>So I used a debugger and realized that it
spends more than half of the time to parse the mapfile.<BR><BR>Why mapfile
parsing is so slow on Windows? What can I do about
that?<BR><BR>Erdem<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>