Validation Runtimes

[SzalonyNiemiec]

Calling the validate() function, even on relatively small graphs takes hours for me. Are there any tips or tricks for reducing the runtime?

this is what I'm currently doing:

def validate_kg_for_brick(kg_turtle):
    g = Graph(load_brick=True)
    g.parse(data=kg_turtle, format="turtle")
    conforms, results_graph, results_text = g.validate()
    return conforms, results_text

As I don't use the results_graph I considered messing with the implementation of validate in pyshacl, to take out the generation of the results graph, to cut down on runtime. Is this advisable?

[SzalonyNiemiec]

What I've discovered is that the inclusion of OWL expressions in the KG can blow up the validation runtime by several hundred times, for a KG of approximately the same size.