Re: more precise formulation

Adam Megacz <[email protected]> Sat, 03 Apr 2004 02:41:20 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.xwt.core
Organization XWT
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Tupshin Harper <[email protected]> writes:
> I'm not saying that this reflow problem fits into that category, but
> just being able to express it as a linear programming problem
> doesn't make it tractable.

Don't worry, we're safe ;)

Linear programming has one other really great feature: incremental
solutions.  Most of the time if you change the size of one box, it
will do only a constant amount of work.  This is a big, big deal for
stuff like the edit widget where one box has thousands of children...

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