I am curious ... is the fast time for calibre to merge, is that done with Preview actively showing the file being merged into, or a different file, or is that with the Preview updating message showing?
A second thread just to load Preview is doable but seems like overkill. But waiting for Preview to load could be handled more asynchronously, as long as it does not interfere with syncing from Preview back to CodeView.
I assume calibre is using multiple threads to handle the merging as well. That might make some sense to look into.
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