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From: Adam Thompson <arthompson1990@gmail.com>
To: Karl Dahlke <eklhad@comcast.net>
Cc: Edbrowse-dev@lists.the-brannons.com
Subject: Re: [Edbrowse-dev] stackoverflow and css
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 19:25:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180211192531.cfzkkzcrsw6k7vd2@toaster> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180111135351.eklhad@comcast.net>

On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 01:53:51PM -0500, Karl Dahlke wrote:
> The css portion, that maps css attributes over to objects, takes 2 minutes to run.
> That's not the infinite loop, but it is intolerable nonetheless.
> Browse www.stackoverflow.com with db3 and watch 2 minutes go by between
> 
> execute eb$qs$start
> execution complete

Wow, yeah... that's not good.

> The version we got was built to run and handle all situations, and be robust, but obviously not optimized.
> Optimizing things is something I'm good at, but it's a lot of code doing something I'm not entirely familiar with, so I would be taking a big bite.
> Could it be optimized and still be javascript? Is it primarily an algorithmic inefficiency?
> Or would it have to be rewritten in C?
> I hope the former, because turning all that into C would be a pain!
> There's no real reason to mess with the css parser, that runs once and pretty fast,
> but querySelectorAll compares every css directive against every node in the document, which is potentially an n^2 problem.

Yeah, that sounds like an algorithm problem, I'll take a look and see if there's anything obvious.
May be there's some way to ignore certain directives, I'm not entirely sure yet.

Thanks for looking at this.

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