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Originally Posted by mscott161
Westlyn,
No problem on the IMP file. I have ran through all 1000 IMP books I have al rangeing in size. Let me know if you are still having problems. If you want to email me the file, I do not believe it would break forum rules and since I will not be using the file for anything but testing, it will not break the copyright. It is up to you.
Michael
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I find that any .IMP more than about 100k takes an ever increasing time eg 400Kb takes about 20 minutes but 1500K takes about 4 hours and a 2500Kb IMP hadn't produced html after 7 or 8 hours, so there seems to be an exponential-like increase in processing time as the file size increases.
IMP_DUMP seems to be much less size affected with the same 1500Kb file taking less than 30 seconds to output the txt file.
The file that takes 4 hours also generates a .html file where the text is unreadable but the imp_dump .txt file is readable
eg Output html in browser from ConvertIMPGUI:
Code:
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but the imp_dump output is readable; but is output with unix not windows line end termination. My highlighting of the line end chars.
Code:
"LF"PROLOGUE "LF" "LF"I have a story to tell you. It has many beginnings, and perhaps one ending. Perhaps not. Beginnings and endings are contingent things anyway; inventions, devices. Where does any story really begin? There is always context, always an encompassingly greater epic, always something before the described events, unless we are to start every story with, 'BANG! Expand! Sssss . . .', then itemise the whole subsequent history of the universe before settling down, at last, to the particular tale in question. Similarly, no ending is final, unless it is the end of all things . . . "LF"Nevertheless
I must be being dense today but I couldn't see how to attach a file to a private email in this forum. So bear with me until I find out how.
I'll send you a zip file with the .imp, the .html and .txt output from ConvertIMPGUI and IPM_dump. Hopefully that would make it easier to track down the issue. I'm assuming the massive performance hit is maybe related to the output formatting issue.
Thanks again for being willing to take a look