On Friday, 6 September 2013 at 18:51:29 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2013-09-06 20:24, H. S. Teoh wrote:
If I had to guess, it's because we finally nuked hyphenate.js
and
hyphenate-selectively.js, both of which are big resource hogs
that
provide only barely-noticeable functionality.
Why do these script take so long time in the first place to
download/run?
hyphenate.js uses a big language lookup table to insert thousands
of ­ into all of the words on the entire page so that the
browser can hyphenate the words. It seems the author has spent a
lot of time trying to make it run fast but it's going to be slow
just by the nature of what it has to do. A proper hyphenation
algorithm is faster because it takes place during the layout
stage so it doesn't need to consider every word for hyphenation
(and also would be written in native code) but that option isn't
available to javascript as far as I know.
