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kovidgoyal · 11-05-2009, 10:33 AM

the bottleneck in conversion is CSS parsing. MOBI input files can sometimes generate a lot of CSS that has to later be parsed. Unfortunately, the only ready to use CSS parsing library I could find uses regexps to parse CSS and is really slow, it's time goes up exponentially with the size of the CSS.

11-05-2009, 10:33 AM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,434 Karma: 27757438 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	the bottleneck in conversion is CSS parsing. MOBI input files can sometimes generate a lot of CSS that has to later be parsed. Unfortunately, the only ready to use CSS parsing library I could find uses regexps to parse CSS and is really slow, it's time goes up exponentially with the size of the CSS.