- From: Alexey Feldgendler <alexey@feldgendler.ru>
- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:19:49 +0600
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:57:41 +0600, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at iki.fi> wrote: >> TeX uses repeated passes over a long document to handle cross- >> references properly using limited memory. It would be useful if >> HTML allowed something like that. > I see streaming bounded-memory operation and multiple passes as two > totally different things. Making multiple passes on something stored > on disk isn't streaming operation. It is more like an application- > specific virtual memory. Even if it was bounded in terms of RAM, it > isn't bounded in terms of disk. The ability to process a document in a constant number of passes with limited memory is a weaker requirement than the ability to do it in just one pass, but it's nevertheless an advantage over having to hold the entire DOM in memory. > Do you have specific real apps in mind? Not really. I don't know how Prince works, but I suspect this is an issue for Prince. -- Alexey Feldgendler <alexey at feldgendler.ru> [ICQ: 115226275] http://feldgendler.livejournal.com
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