PERFORMANCE ISSUES #31
Description
This sofware was not designed so that it can handle very large family trees. It can easily cope with few thousands of members, but latency (time till page is generated) grows as the size of the family tree increases.
The main bottleneck of performance is that (1.) mod_perl is not used, therefore perl interpreter is starts for every request (2.) family tree is not cached but data file is parsed and tree is built-up for every request (using serialized format helps a little).
Since the purpose of this software is to provide a free and simple tool for those who would like to maintain their family tree themself, performance is not the primary concern.
make reading tree one time!