Unecessarily slow scripts??

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zabby
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Unecessarily slow scripts??

Post by zabby » Sat May 12, 2007 4:05 am

I wrote a script to rip text off a *locally* stored internal website, and, I know this sounds picky, but it takes FIVE seconds to parse a fully loaded page? The CPU doesn't seem to max out, what's the deal?

It's only a couple extracts... I assign them to variables and post them in a form concatenated... nothing fancy.

It sounds insignificant, but it's 5 seconds times something I have to do around 400 times a day. That's half an hour a day! :-(
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Post by Tech Support » Tue May 15, 2007 11:03 am

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback. We are constantly looking to improve the iMacros product, so understanding how people are using it and what limitations they are encountering helps a lot.

One feature we have added to improve the macro execution time is the introduction of the filter command. http://wiki.imacros.net/FILTER Currently this only works with images, but it improves page loading times and reduces the page content.

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Post by Tech Support » Tue May 15, 2007 10:44 pm

Also, can you please email a sample html page for testing to support1 @ iopus.com ?

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Post by zabby » Thu May 24, 2007 5:28 pm

Hi, I did try the filter command, doesn't seem to make too much of a difference.

I will email you a sample page, thanks.
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