sluggish Tabi build performance (40 secs for 1,000 pages)

[andycowl-dev]

System information

• Zola: 0.21.0
• Tabi: latest GitHub snapshot
• CPU: Intel i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz (4 cores, 8 threads)
• Memory: 48GB

Expected behaviour

Zola with the Tabi theme should provide similar levels of build performance to similar Zola themes.

As Zola provides no verbose or debug options, diagnosing performance issues and determining where the bottleneck lies is difficult for the non-technical, end user.

Actual behaviour

Zola with the Tabi theme consistently takes 40 seconds to build my site of 1,000 pages.

Other popular Zola themes with the same content, similar functionality and site structure build the same site much quicker.

• Serene: 0.35 secs
• Linkita: 1.77 secs
• Bearblog: 0.26 secs
• PaperMod: 20.70 secs

Steps to reproduce

Clone the repo available at:

https://codeberg.org/andyc/zola-tabi.git

$ zola build
Building site...
Checking all internal links with anchors.

Successfully checked 12 internal link(s) with anchors.
-> Creating 1033 pages (0 orphan) and 3 sections
Done in 40.4s.

Additional context

https://codeberg.org/andyc/zola-tabi/src/branch/main/README.md

Final checklist

• I've checked that the issue isn't already reported.
• I've tested with the latest version of tabi to check if the issue has already been fixed.

[welpo]

Hey, thanks for reporting this.

I can think of a few causes for this. I will not be able to deeply look into it for a week or two, though.

A few questions:

• Are you using any shortcodes?
• Have you tried turning all tabi-features off? Everything in [extra]. Note it's not enough to remove this section, as some options are enabled by default (in theme.toml).

Please let me know!

Thank you