On Aug 9, 2006, at 22:32, Jeremias Maerki wrote:
Thank you, Karthik! That's very helpful information. Looks like
another
little change making a huge difference. Cool!
Now, if we can free some objects even sooner FOP might even handle
files
like the one from Luis Ferro with under 256MB one day. For that we'll
need to know reliably when an FO is completely processed (including
area
generation). That's something that we'll also need for
page-number-citation-last, too, BTW.
Another remote idea for improvement has again to do with markers.
On a given 'containing page', for each retrieve-boundary/-position/-
class-name, there is only one qualifying area in the whole document
(always on a preceding page). Currently the FlowLM stores the
relevant markers in a map, so that the StaticContentLM needs to do
little more than pick the right marker off the right map when
resolving a RetrieveMarker.
Still, IIC, this means that, when the retrieve-markers for one page
have all been processed, a (possibly large) number of markers remain
unnecessarily referenced by their FO --unless in case of a second
pass that completely invalidates the initial marker-retrieval, there
will be no more need for a great many of those (possibly containing
whole tables themselves)
I'll think it over some more.
Later,
Andreas
