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Old 04-10-2009, 12:00 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I must admit that I still don't really "get" why this is really necessary. Why does it take more memory to "process" a long book than a short one, when all that one needs to display is the current page? It doesn't seem to be an issue with any other book format.
Its because of the way CSS works. In order to correctly apply CSS rules, the entire XHTML tree must be parsed into memory.
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