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authorLukas Larsson <[email protected]>2011-02-02 10:52:42 +0100
committerLukas Larsson <[email protected]>2011-02-02 10:59:23 +0100
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Update documentation to reflect performance enhancement changes of cover
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database contains information about each executable line in each
Cover compiled module, performance decreases proportionally to
the size and number of the Cover compiled modules.</p>
+ <p>To improve performance when analysing cover results it is possible
+ to do multiple calls to <seealso marker="cover#analyse-1">analyse</seealso>
+ and <seealso marker="cover#analyse_to_file-1">analyse_to_file</seealso>
+ at once. You can also use the
+ <seealso marker="cover#async_analyse_to_file-1">async_analyse_to_file</seealso>
+ convenience function.
+ </p>
</section>
<section>