Bug 77272

Summary: FileReader read speed is way too low
Product: WebKit Reporter: Craig Yoshioka <craigyk>
Component: DOMAssignee: Alexey Proskuryakov <ap>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: Normal CC: ap
Priority: P2    
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
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poposed fix oliver: review+

Craig Yoshioka
Reported 2012-01-27 23:11:06 PST
I've found that the read speed using FileReader seems to be artifically throttled to ~8MB/sec. The same code in Chrome gets much faster speeds (reading from an SSD, 100MB/sec+). I know the FileReader isn't complete yet, but I thought the heads up might be nice... this speed limitation is currently the bottleneck in the resumable uploader I'm building... I've gotten the MD5 hashing speed up to 20MB/sec/thread in JS. I'm hoping for confirmation that my interpretation is correct (that it's throttled), and to give a heads up on this performance limitation. I recognize that FileReader in the nightly isn't production-ready yet.
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poposed fix (1.29 KB, patch)
2012-03-01 13:27 PST, Alexey Proskuryakov 		oliver: review+
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Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 1 2012-03-01 13:27:59 PST
Created attachment 129739 [details] poposed fix
Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 2 2012-03-01 14:51:35 PST
Committed <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/109435>.
Craig Yoshioka
Comment 3 2012-03-02 09:23:01 PST
Wow, it's somehow magically ~512X faster now! J/K, but it is much better, I'm getting read speeds of ~45MB/sec now from the SSD vs. the previous ~8. Thanks!
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