Any chance Jekyll 4 will have speed enhancements for build process? I love Jekyll and Liquid but on some larger sites it take forever to build. Just curious…
@bgarrant Yes. Jekyll 4 will bring performance improvements.
If you’d like to take it for a test-drive:
- Edit your site’s Gemfile as follows:
gem "jekyll", :git => "https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll.git", :branch => "master" - Install the dependencies
bundle install
Disclaimer: Jekyll 4.0 is still under development and includes breaking-changes
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That is great to hear. I am excited to try this out!
see also Help us benchmark Jekyll
Based on the other topics, one might exptect a 15-40% lower build time.
Here’s an example of a refactored Jekyll website (around 1000 posts and pages) using current master, with 2000% improvement:
| Step | Done in… |
|---|---|
| 1 - Before | 1337,872s |
| 2 - Switch to liquid-c | 1509,997s |
| 3 - Remove LSI | 1264,981s |
| 4 - Switch to CommonMark | 1282,607s |
| 5 - Switch to master | 64,94s |
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