- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 17:19:37 +0300
- To: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
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 -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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