Hey,
We are currently working on upgrading our Aspose version to 20.6. In this process we have noticed quite a performance slowdown when merging documents.
A colleague conducted the following performance test:
Aspose version (Words/PDF) | Small docx (average time in mS) | Large docx (average time in mS)
17.8 / 17.8 | 148 | 3775
18.4 / 18.3 | 180 | 3840
19.6 / 19.6 | 184 | 4575
20.6 / 20.6 | 209 | 4962
Small docx: 9 pages, 128 KB
Large docx: 714 pages, 32,5 MB
This is a slowdown of 31.44% for the large documents and 41.21% for the small documents.
Another test we did where the documents are roughly 100-140 pages long and contain lots of different mergefields the slowdown was more like 80+%.
Here we used our existing system as a base and updated the Aspose version with as few changes as possible to the existing codebase.
Can you confirm that the newer versions are quite a bit slower? And if so,
(1) Are there plans to boost the performance?
(2) Is there a workaround that does not increase the merging time as much?
Thank you