Re: [Freedos-devel] HTMLHELP progress report

2023-06-23 Thread Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
Hi Eric, > How much faster are Unicode and HTML entity translation now? The speed up of the table lookup is about factor 3. However, there are still some bottlenecks in the tag / entity substitution code (not the UTF to codepage translation). The code makes heavy use of memmove and realloc,

Re: [Freedos-devel] HTMLHELP progress report

2023-06-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bernd, thanks for all those fixes in HTMLHELP! How much faster are Unicode and HTML entity translation now? I would NOT remove the ZIP feature, because a typical help zip contains more than 100 files, with a median length of just 1 kB uncompressed. This would waste a lot of disk space

[Freedos-devel] HTMLHELP progress report

2023-06-22 Thread Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
Hi, the last week I worked on HTMLHELP fixing various bugs, and initial tests by Fritz Müller and me give hope that the crashes and display corruptions are gone. The changes made so far, which will make it into the next FreeDOS interim build, are: ! Fix a heap corruption bug leading to