On 10.05.2005 20:41:19 Simon Pepping wrote: > My worry with the new approach is performance: We know that the > algorithms require quite some computational steps, but we have no idea > whether in the end performance on a large document will be acceptable > or not. (Perhaps Luca has some experimental evidence from his own > implementation?)
I still have some performance comparisons on my todo list as preparation for the ApacheCon session. I can run the examples through the new code to get an idea. That's a no-brainer with my API wrapper. I'll keep you posted. > Jeremias, what do you mean with complexity in certain areas? Tables > only, or are there other complexities that you perceived as > overwhelming? No, it's mainly the complexity of the collapsed border model plus the implications from row spanning and if you go further: handling min/opt/max stuff which I dared to simply ignore. There are so many possible interactions. Take the RowBorder2 example. It took me a whole day to run on paper. And it's still not covering all the possible cases. If you remove the column span in the header and do some nasty stuff with the border withs you can create real mean examples. I intend to write one when I'm in a better mood. Jeremias Maerki
