[Blog's post] A faster JabRef

[mlep]

Following JabRef/jabref#1100 , I figure out this is a more suitable place for a discussion.

Please, review (facts and writing) at PR #37.

Tentative publication date : Friday April 8 (a week before the post about the release of version 3.3).

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A faster JabRef is coming!

Some users reported JabRef was slow on large databases (thank you for the feedback!). This was especially the case for three operations:

• loading a database
• saving a database
• searching through a database.

During a search, the user interface could become very unresponsive, which is indeed quite annoying... Well, this time will be over soon: @simonharrer has recently contributed code making search much faster (JabRef/jabref#1100). By integrating the Java Microbenchmarking framework (JabRef/jabref#1103), @tobiasdiez was able to benchmark JabRef and reveal interesting insights about the performance of JabRef:

Preliminary tests have been carried out on a database with 100000 entries (is it big enough for you?). They show that JabRef is now 10 times faster at searching: it takes only one second to search through 60000 entries.

If you want to give it a try: http://builds.jabref.org/master/ (this is a development version. So, be carefully, and back up your data!). Your comments are welcomed at JabRef/jabref#1100

About opening large databases: work is under way to speed it up You can follow this development at JabRef/jabref#1094

[mlep]

I have tried to convert this into a pull request (which seems more appropriate).
Clicking on "New pull request" led me to https://github.com/JabRef/www.jabref.org/compare .
I am probably missing something...

[simonharrer]

Go to https://github.com/JabRef/www.jabref.org/new/gh-pages/_posts and then click on "new file" add the contents and then it is turned into a PR, I think.

[mlep]

@simonharrer: Thanks for the pointer. It works.
Comments and changes welcomed at PR #37.

[koppor]

Follow up at #37.