[reportlab-users] Tons of table questions

[Henning von Bargen]

> From: Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com>

> Subject: Re: [reportlab-users] Tons of table questions

> 

> I guess we could imagine a two pass algorithm where the first 

> pass O(n) gathers 

>   overall width height data and accumulates stuff for a 

> second pass which then 

> lays out the data using a slice of the original data that's 

> left to be rendered 

> and does no copying at all of data or styles.

> -- 

> Robin Becker


I guess that further optimization requires additional conditions:
1) The first and all the following frames have to be of the same width.
2) Possibly:  ... the same height.

But for long tables, at least condition 1) should be no problem
for real-world applications.

Henning