Joe When I access it, I see a 3.08Mbyte .xml file in temporary storage. Interestingly, the text variant is still 2.7Mbyte. My access time is variable. When I first used the xml file, the access time was always in minutes, time to make a coffee, come back and continue waiting. Now it is variable. On a good day, I get a page I can scroll in 35 second, other times it is over 2 minutes. I don't see any reason why and my network and PC have not changed that I know of. I am on Windows and Internet Explorer. Interestingly, if I download a .pdf, I can track the download by looking at the size in temporary storage; I can do the same with the .txt, but not with the .xml, not sure what it means, perhaps that the processing is concurrent with the download, and that only the end result gets written to disk. The disk file is .xml and not .htm(l). Tom Petch Tom Petch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Touch" <touch@xxxxxxx> To: "Simon Perreault" <simon.perreault@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <ietf@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 7:44 PM Subject: Re: size of the XML of IANA ports > > > On 10/12/2011 10:28 AM, Simon Perreault wrote: > > As Julian said, what's slow is the browser rendering the HTML. More > > precisely, it's two things: > > 1. HTML parsing, especially in Safari > > 2. table layout rendering. > > Emperically: > > opening the file from disk = 30 seconds > > downloading the file from the net = 33 seconds > > I.e., they're both part of the problem. > > Joe > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf