Large html pages and slow load times/high CPU usage

[Kevin Cozens]

Henry Spencer wrote:

>On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Madison Kelly wrote:
>  
>
>>   Is the browser taking time because of the render time (each directory 
>>creates a cell in a table)?
>>    
>>
>
>Rendering of huge tables is almost always slow, especially if the machine
>doesn't have piles of memory.  It's typically necessary for the browser to
>build up a data structure representing the *entire* table before it can
>decide how wide columns should be etc.  This takes a long time and a very
>large amount of memory (the representation is often quite inefficient),
>and especially if that's driving your machine into paging/swapping, it's
>not too surprising that it's slow. 
>  
>
If the browser is causing a delay since it doesn't know how wide a 
column should be, the simple solution for that part of the puzzle is to 
specify the column widths so the browser can begin formatting text right 
away.

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