why do PDF readers need multiple seconds to search through something like a thousand pages of formatted text when grep can dig through the equivalent plaintext in ~50ms? is extracting plaintext from PDF that costly?
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I suspect there’s a lot of low hanging fruit for optimization. Are your evince and libpoppler built with LTO? Probably wouldn’t help much as GCC already has __builtin_pow but curious.
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