GNU bug report logs - #19776
25.0.50; HTML rendering is very slow

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: rms <at> gnu.org

Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 23:04:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Merged with 22846

Found in versions 25.0.50, 25.0.91

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #97 received at 19776 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>, 19776 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19776: 25.0.50; HTML rendering is very slow
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 15:10:05 +0200

Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org> writes:

> How much slower would it get if it counts the number of lines to be
> indented, first thing, and decides based on that whether to give
> progress messages?

The issue isn't the number of lines, and it has nothing to do with
indentation -- it's about the complexity of the layout and how easy it
is to make it fit into the buffer.  So making a guess at whether a given
HTML document will take a long or short time to render isn't trivial.

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