Optimizing Argos Translate start time

[argosopentech]

Building a custom seq2seq sentence boundary detection system using Transformers to replace Stanza. This reduces the size of dependencies that need to be packaged in the Snap archive, meaning less to decompress at start. This can reduce Argos Translate start time from 10.8s to 6.8s.

• https://youtu.be/dCe2d6oPLZA

[ogra]

10secs by default are quite slow, do you already have compression: lzo in your snapcraft.yaml ? that should reduce the default decompression time a lot as well …

How to switch your snap to use LZO compression

Recently we enabled using LZO as a compression format for your snap in order to get better decompression performance for i.e. desktop application snaps. Specifically using LZO compression instead of the default XZ compression will help speedup the time it takes your snap to launch the very first time on a user’s system, at the cost of a slightly larger snap file. You can read more details about this in this blog post. If you would like to switch to using LZO compression with your snap, all you …

[argosopentech]

I enabled LZO compression but then the Stanza dependency increased in size which made the Snap too large to upload to the Snap store so I had to disable it.

[James-Carroll]

Just out of curiosity, how big is too much for the store?

[argosopentech]

It doesn’t appear to a hard limit but uploads seem to start failing ~1GB.