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by dmitrygr 16 days ago
Last few zotero versions clearly have some O(n^3) algorithms in their Word plugin, since any document with > 100 references makes a very fast apple silicon computer slow as hell, "updating references". Killing zotero fixes it instantly (at a cost of un-updated references). I suspect if any testing is done, it is done with 1 or 2 references in a file, and 2^3 still ain't much