From 4ee514b103df6388203287c36a72b18e7b6bf12f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Dylan M. Taylor" <dylan@dylanmtaylor.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2026 22:23:48 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Layout: look at the text after a decimal tab once, not once
 per cluster

Text after a decimal tab is shifted after each of its clusters, and each
shift walked the text again from the tab to find its first '.'. A long run
without a '.' (soft hyphens take no room, so it stays on one line) made a
single paragraph's line breaking quadratic. The scan now carries on from the
cluster it reached.
---
 crates/layout/src/para/lines.rs   | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 crates/layout/src/tests/linear.rs | 22 ++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/crates/layout/src/para/lines.rs b/crates/layout/src/para/lines.rs
index fac5c940a..20c3b31f7 100644
--- a/crates/layout/src/para/lines.rs
+++ b/crates/layout/src/para/lines.rs
@@ -90,6 +90,8 @@ struct Scan {
     j: usize,
     /// Tab cluster, stop, and x where the tab started.
     pending_tab: Option<(usize, TabStop, f32)>,
+    /// The text after a pending decimal tab looked at so far for its '.'.
+    decimal: Option<DecimalScan>,
     /// The width of the spaces so far on this line.
     space_w: f32,
     has_tab: bool,
@@ -111,17 +113,15 @@ fn takes_room(c: &Cluster) -> bool {
     c.kind != ClKind::Marker && !(matches!(c.kind, ClKind::Object(_)) && c.adv == 0.0 && c.obj_h == 0.0)
 }
 
-/// The width up to the first '.' of the text after the tab at `tj`, up to cluster `j`.
-fn width_to_decimal(pl: &ParaLayout, tj: usize, j: usize) -> Option<f32> {
-    let mut w = 0.0;
-    for k in tj + 1..=j {
-        let cc = pl.clusters.get(k)?;
-        if pl_text_at(cc) {
-            return Some(w);
-        }
-        w += cc.adv;
-    }
-    None
+/// How far the text after a decimal tab has been looked at for its first '.' (see
+/// [`Scan::width_to_decimal`]): the tab, the next cluster to look at, the width before it, and
+/// whether that cluster is the '.'.
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Default)]
+struct DecimalScan {
+    tab: usize,
+    next: usize,
+    width: f32,
+    found: bool,
 }
 
 /// The objects' exclusions mirrored across a line of `width`, for a right-to-left paragraph.
@@ -276,6 +276,7 @@ impl<'e> Breaker<'e> {
             end: LineEnd::Para,
             j: self.i,
             pending_tab: None,
+            decimal: None,
             space_w: 0.0,
             has_tab: false,
             skip: false,
@@ -839,6 +840,29 @@ impl Scan {
         false
     }
 
+    /// The width up to the first '.' of the text after the tab at `tj`, up to cluster `j`. The
+    /// text is shifted after each of its clusters, so the clusters already looked at are not
+    /// walked again: a long run without a '.' after a decimal tab is looked at once, not once
+    /// per cluster.
+    fn width_to_decimal(&mut self, pl: &ParaLayout, tj: usize, j: usize) -> Option<f32> {
+        let start = DecimalScan { tab: tj, next: tj + 1, width: 0.0, found: false };
+        let d = self.decimal.get_or_insert(start);
+        if d.tab != tj || d.next > j.saturating_add(1) {
+            *d = start;
+        }
+        while !d.found && d.next <= j {
+            crate::work::steps(1);
+            let cc = pl.clusters.get(d.next)?;
+            if pl_text_at(cc) {
+                d.found = true;
+            } else {
+                d.width += cc.adv;
+                d.next += 1;
+            }
+        }
+        d.found.then_some(d.width)
+    }
+
     /// Text after a decimal/centre/right tab shifts as it grows.
     fn shift_pending_tab(&mut self, pl: &mut ParaLayout) {
         let Some((tj, stop, tx)) = self.pending_tab else { return };
@@ -847,7 +871,7 @@ impl Scan {
             TabAlign::Right => stop.pos - tx - seg_w,
             TabAlign::Center => stop.pos - tx - seg_w / 2.0,
             // Width up to the first '.' in the segment.
-            TabAlign::Decimal => stop.pos - tx - width_to_decimal(pl, tj, self.j).unwrap_or(seg_w),
+            TabAlign::Decimal => stop.pos - tx - self.width_to_decimal(pl, tj, self.j).unwrap_or(seg_w),
             _ => 0.0,
         };
         let shift = shift.max(0.0);
diff --git a/crates/layout/src/tests/linear.rs b/crates/layout/src/tests/linear.rs
index 993dcbedd..ec039a427 100644
--- a/crates/layout/src/tests/linear.rs
+++ b/crates/layout/src/tests/linear.rs
@@ -482,3 +482,25 @@ fn selecting_a_header_on_the_hinted_page_does_not_walk_every_page() {
     eprintln!("hinted header: {small} steps for 20 pages, {big} for 160");
     assert!(small > 0 && big <= small + 8, "the pages aren't walked: {small} → {big}");
 }
+
+/// A paragraph of a decimal tab at 200 pt followed by `text`.
+fn after_decimal_tab(text: &str) -> Document {
+    use wordcraft_doc::props::{TabAlign, TabStop};
+    let mut d = Document::from_text(&format!("\t{text}"));
+    let at = Pos::body(0, 0);
+    d.format_paragraphs(&at, &at, &|p| p.tabs = Some(vec![TabStop { pos: 200.0, align: TabAlign::Decimal, leader: Default::default() }])).unwrap();
+    d
+}
+
+/// The text after a decimal tab was looked at again from the tab for its '.' after each of its
+/// clusters, so a long run of clusters without a '.' (soft hyphens take no room, so they stay on
+/// one line) took quadratic time.
+#[test]
+fn text_after_a_decimal_tab_is_looked_at_once() {
+    let opts = LayoutOptions::default();
+    // The text after the tab still ends at the stop, where it ended before.
+    let l = lay(&after_decimal_tab("12.5"), &opts);
+    let (Some(end), Some(start)) = (l.caret(&Pos::body(0, 5)), l.caret(&Pos::body(0, 0))) else { panic!("no carets") };
+    assert!((end.x - start.x - 200.0).abs() < 1.0, "the text ends at the stop: {} from {}", end.x, start.x);
+    assert_layout_linear("decimal tab", 2000, |n| after_decimal_tab(&format!("1{}", "\u{AD}".repeat(n))), &opts);
+}