Commit (STABLE): Re: commit: Speed up loading loading of documents with TOC

Backport: Substantial speed up of loading a large document with a TOC.
(msevior)

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On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 01:01 +1000, msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
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> Substantial speed up of loading a large document with a TOC.
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> This should be backported.
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> The problem was that during a load, a TOC grows as more content gets
> appended.
> This moves all the lines and tables in the document. When tables that span
> more than one page get moved that have to be "re-broken" and re-laidout
> across the pages.
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> This introduces a substantially overhead that grows quardratically with
> document size.
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> This patch (which should be backported) prevents the TOC from being
> re-formatted until the entire document is loaded.
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> Martin
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Received on Sun Apr 3 15:22:42 2005