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Originally Posted by MrWarper
Wrt to speed, I'd say interpreted languages like python are not your friends, but anyway.
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Sure, but I feel that speed is more often in design, and opposite in lack thereof, than in languages' benchmarks =)
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Originally Posted by MrWarper
Maybe adding to what outperforms you is a better option over trying to replace it, unless you have a good reason to code independently.
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Good reason? I felt like it. Competition and what not. Recreation after a sucky workday at a sucky workplace producing sucky code. It's not about doing the optimal thing, but about having fun. Even if my work were to be wasted, atleast my time wasn't.
Besides, I'm not beaten yet. Some cases is not all cases, and some cases may be fixed.
If I cannot match calibres current implementation, I will work on it instead.
To be honest I haven't even looked at it yet, but it has shown some weird errors (like dropping doubles of tightly spaced l:s (L)) which makes me suspect that our implementation approaches differs on quite a low level. There is a value in trying different approaches too.
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Originally Posted by dwanthny
I would like to see roffLOL take a look at calibre's "in development" PDF conversion engine that handles 2 columns and see if he could add the finishing touches to that conversion engine.
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Are double columns even in use? I have found a single book with a layout in that manner.