2.4.1

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 04/07/2024 à 16:42, Jürgen Spitzmüller a écrit :
> I think the problem is that we call getAuthors() for one and the same
> reference way too often by calling BibTeXInfo::getAuthorList() from
> diverse places (which is at least in parts also my fault, see
> BibTeXInfo::getValueForKey()).
> Every time we do this, the vector is built from scratch, which is
> expensive with that many authors and of course completely redundant.
> 
> I suppose caching this vector and only recreating it when necessary
> will make the case in the bug report usable again (the long list causes
> a noticeable delay, but it's bearable if done once IMHO), and it will
> probably generally speed up document loading with many citations.

 From what I understand, it exhausts the memory of the computer by 
allocating memory somewhere in the regex machinery (see the backtrace in 
the report). So the problem is not just about caching.

JMarc