yes, ikiwiki is slow for me - but I still like it

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[[!meta title="Ikiwiki is slow"]]
As you probably know, this [[website|about/websites/]] is generated
by [ikiwiki](http://www.ikiwiki.info/), which does a pretty nice
job for people who like to write their websites without a fancy GUI,
but still do not want to write HTML or XHTML directly.
As I [[migrated|migration-1-configs]]
[[some|migration-2-freebsd-raid-monitoring-foss]]
[[parts|migration-3-ccollect]]
of [[my other websites|cinit-migrated]]
[[into this one|migration-4-gpm]],
I realised that ikiwiki becomes slower and slower.
A normal run with
ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup
takes about ***15*** minutes!
If I run it with
ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup --refresh
it still takes about ***1-2*** minutes. I clearly understand that
my site is not the smallest anymore (
[16:38] ikn:nicoweb% find . -type f | wc -l
31015
[16:38] ikn:nicoweb% find . -type d | wc -l
3092
), but I still think that it should be possible to (re-)generate
it in less than 30 seconds. I know that the author,
[Joey Hess](http://kitenet.net/~joey/), is very open to feedback
and does a great job, but as I always regenerate the website before a public
release and that costs my time, it motivated me to write this article.
Dear Joey, keep up the good work, but speedup ikiwiki, please!
[[!tag net unix]]