I have updated the Epub2Text plugin. The new version 0.1.4 produces the same output as the initial version 0.1.0, but is much faster for large ebooks.
A few examples for the performance improvement (of the HTML parser step only, but that was the performance problem):
Code:
Text size old new
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200 KB 0,06 sec. 0,03 sec.
450 KB 2,80 sec. 0,32 sec.
900 KB 4,53 sec. 0,09 sec.
1100 KB 3,81 sec. 0,06 sec.
1600 KB 75 sec. 0,99 sec.
2000 KB 153 sec. 1,39 sec.
9850 KB 391 sec. 0,84 sec.
If you are using this plugin, please upgrade to the new version.