Re: Consider removing the MathML entities from text/html

On Oct 2, 2009, at 16:29, David Carlisle wrote:

>>   * Having 2000+ entities instead of 200+ entities doesn't seem too  
>> nice
>>     for implementors.
>
> There is obviously a cost and I can't speak about browser
> implementations but I'd have thought that overall it's better for  
> users
> to have them always there, built in

It's probably better for authors to just have them there. However, the  
list is indeed long enough that using naïve algorithms and data  
structures (implemented to avoid "premature optimization") actually  
does cause a measurable slow-down. I have no reason to expect a  
performance problem in the case of non-naïve data structures and  
algorithms, though.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=506090

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Received on Friday, 2 October 2009 14:20:15 UTC