[PUSHED 3-5] fdo#49208 ridiculous performance on certain .doc

Hi there,

On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 16:43 +0100, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> The .doc has some paragraphs in it that are around the 64k length mark.
> It doesn't *look* like that's the case because they end in vast quantity
> of whitespace and writer implements the word-compatibility thing to let
> empty spaces disappear off the right side of the page rather than wrap.

        Fun :-)

> Turns out to be a good test case for our break iterators, couple of
> problems, squashed together as attachment

        Good stuff;

> and assume that a space doesn't combine with anything in any exotic way
> to form a single grapheme
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=ae716b07f7218fadf0143de1946cc9e0e2c08744

        The idea of 'space' as a grapheme is somewhat counter-intuitive in the
abstract :-) but - anyhow, a great set of fixes !

        Can you give an idea of the performance win / speedup ?

        Thanks,

                Michael.

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