Follow-up Comment #3, bug #275 (project tex4ht):
I've spent yesterday by hunting the slowdown, I've rewrote lot of titlesec in
custom .4ht file, but still haven't found the cause. There was lot of cases
where token registers or \edef commands which were feeded with some new
content in each
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #275 (project tex4ht):
the maintainer of titlesec is javier bezos. he is still around. if we asked
him to just make titlesec a no-op for tex4ht, he might be willing. would one
of you be willing to ask him about it?
thanks, k.
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #275 (project tex4ht):
I am not sure what to do with this. titlesec really can't work with tex4ht, as
sectioning commands are heavily redefined by tex4ht and they should be
configured using CSS, titlesec's configurations can't be used due to totally
different display