Editing of large pages can use a significant amount of memory; a spotcheck that Max did on [[United States]] showed an increase of 121MB usage in Chrome while editing the page.

This is a concern for us for mobile in particular, as today's mobile devices have the amount of memory of computers from several years ago -- most have 1GB or 512MB (or even less), which has to house the operating system, background apps, the web browser, and the *entire* article with a richly annotated DOM.

Possible techniques for reducing memory usage were proposed at the VE mobile meeting yesterday:

• Section editing -- if we only have to load up a single section at a time, large pages won't use up nearly as much memory. Note that on mobile we already divide the page up into sections surrounded by <div>s that can be replaced with the editable surface; the other sections on page might not even be open.

• Limit full annotation processing to areas under active editing -- apparently it should be possible to delay some of the HTML processing on sections or even paragraphs that have not yet been edited. This might also save memory, but needs to be looked into.

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Severity: enhancement