[mapguide-internals] Re: Please review RFC 73

[Christine Bao]

Hi Kenneth,

     Thanks for your comments. I agree with your opinion and I think we are on the same page :)


1)      I agree the performance gain is thin regarding xmldb part. For example, if getting one resource content takes n seconds, and there are m resources. Replacing with a sequence calls will take n *m seconds possibly, and it won't reduce a lot compared with before. The motivation of this RFC is actually reducing network communication instead of xmldb query. By combining calls we can reduce the overhead of http significantly.

Thanks & regards,
Christine


From: "Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S" <ks at geograf.dk>

Subject: Re: [mapguide-internals] Re: Please review RFC 73

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1)

If you replace a sequence of GetResourceContent calls, I would expect that the only performance improvement is perhaps the absense of a number of locking calls.

The actual time is, AFAIK, spent in the xmldb code, making little room for perfomance gains.



So, the motivation is a bit thin, but the calling code will likely benefit from the combined call.



2) Ok



3)

I have yet to figure out the MapGuide macro system, so I can't help you there :).

I just have a desire to be able to call the WebTier and get multiple resources with one call instead of many. The http overhead is quite significant.



Regards, Kenneth Skovhede, GEOGRAF A/S