[reportlab-users] RE: Platypus is just slow

Christoph Zwerschke zwerschke at zuv.uni-heidelberg.de
Wed Feb 8 04:57:54 EST 2006


Henning von Bargen wrote:
> It's always a pleasure to see my LongTable patch in use :-)
> 
> Perhaps it should be documented in the Platypus user guide
> that for tables with more than a few dozen rows
> using LongTable instead of Table can make
> a significant performance advantage.

It is mentioned in the beginning of chapter 7. Maybe the user guide 
should have another chapter "performance optimization" or "tips and 
tricks" which should also mention rl_accel.

LongTable should be also mentioned in the ReportLab FAQ in section 2.3,
http://reportlab.org/devfaq.html#2.3

-- Christoph


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