Random forest and gradient boosting PMML files can easily exceed 100s of mbs in size, which takes a while to load. As the format is XML-based, its well suited for compression, and can reduce the file size many-fold. It is worth exploring whether loading the file directly from gzip or zip format improves loading speeds. Fewer disk operations are required, however the decompression will take some more cpu cycles.
Random forest and gradient boosting PMML files can easily exceed 100s of mbs in size, which takes a while to load. As the format is XML-based, its well suited for compression, and can reduce the file size many-fold. It is worth exploring whether loading the file directly from gzip or zip format improves loading speeds. Fewer disk operations are required, however the decompression will take some more cpu cycles.