Use binary search in getVisibleElements()

test/unit/ui_utils_spec.js

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+/* -*- Mode: Java; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
+/* vim: set shiftwidth=2 tabstop=2 autoindent cindent expandtab: */
+/* globals expect, it, describe, binarySearchFirstItem */
+
+'use strict';
+
+describe('ui_utils', function() {
+
+  describe('binary search', function() {
+    function isTrue(boolean) {
+      return boolean;
+    }
+    function isGreater3(number) {
+      return number > 3;
+    }
+
+    it('empty array', function() {
+      expect(binarySearchFirstItem([], isTrue)).toEqual(-1);
+    });
+    it('single boolean entry', function() {
+      expect(binarySearchFirstItem([false], isTrue)).toEqual(-1);
+      expect(binarySearchFirstItem([true], isTrue)).toEqual(0);
+    });
+    it('three boolean entries', function() {
+      expect(binarySearchFirstItem([true, true, true], isTrue)).toEqual(0);
+      expect(binarySearchFirstItem([false, true, true], isTrue)).toEqual(1);
+      expect(binarySearchFirstItem([false, false, true], isTrue)).toEqual(2);
+      expect(binarySearchFirstItem([false, false, false], isTrue)).toEqual(-1);
+    });
+    it('three numeric entries', function() {
+      expect(binarySearchFirstItem([0, 1, 2], isGreater3)).toEqual(-1);
+      expect(binarySearchFirstItem([2, 3, 4], isGreater3)).toEqual(2);
+      expect(binarySearchFirstItem([4, 5, 6], isGreater3)).toEqual(0);
+    });
+  });
+});
+

test/unit/unit_test.html

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
   <script src="../../src/core/worker.js"></script>
   <script src="../../src/display/metadata.js"></script>
   <script src="../../src/core/jpg.js"></script>
+  <script src="../../web/ui_utils.js"></script>
   <script>PDFJS.workerSrc = '../../src/worker_loader.js';</script>
 
   <!-- include spec files here... -->
@@ -52,6 +53,7 @@
   <script src="parser_spec.js"></script>
   <script src="api_spec.js"></script>
   <script src="metadata_spec.js"></script>
+  <script src="ui_utils_spec.js"></script>
   <script src="util_spec.js"></script>
   <script src="cmap_spec.js"></script>
   <script>

web/ui_utils.js

@@ -161,13 +161,10 @@ function watchScroll(viewAreaElement, callback) {
 
       var currentY = viewAreaElement.scrollTop;
       var lastY = state.lastY;
-      if (currentY > lastY) {
-        state.down = true;
-      } else if (currentY < lastY) {
-        state.down = false;
+      if (currentY !== lastY) {
+        state.down = currentY > lastY;
       }
       state.lastY = currentY;
-      // else do nothing and use previous value
       callback(state);
     });
   };
@@ -183,37 +180,83 @@ function watchScroll(viewAreaElement, callback) {
   return state;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Use binary search to find the index of the first item in a given array which
+ * passes a given condition. The items are expected to be sorted in the sense
+ * that if the condition is true for one item in the array, then it is also true
+ * for all following items.
+ *
+ * @returns {Number} Index of the first array element to pass the test,
+ *                   or -1 if no such element exists.
+ */
+function binarySearchFirstItem(items, condition) {
+  var minIndex = 0;
+  var maxIndex = items.length - 1;
+
+  if (items.length === 0 || !condition(items[maxIndex])) {
+    return -1;
+  }
+  if (condition(items[minIndex])) {
+    return minIndex;
+  }
+
+  while (minIndex < maxIndex) {
+    var currentIndex = (minIndex + maxIndex) >> 1;
+    var currentItem = items[currentIndex];
+    if (condition(currentItem)) {
+      maxIndex = currentIndex;
+    } else {
+      minIndex = currentIndex + 1;
+    }
+  }
+  return minIndex; /* === maxIndex */
+}
+
 /**
  * Generic helper to find out what elements are visible within a scroll pane.
  */
 function getVisibleElements(scrollEl, views, sortByVisibility) {
   var top = scrollEl.scrollTop, bottom = top + scrollEl.clientHeight;
   var left = scrollEl.scrollLeft, right = left + scrollEl.clientWidth;
 
-  var visible = [], view;
+  function isElemBottomBelowViewTop(view) {
+    var elem = view.el;
+    var elemBottom = elem.offsetTop + elem.clientTop + elem.clientHeight;
+    return elemBottom > top;
+  }
+
+  var visible = [], view, elem;
   var currentHeight, viewHeight, hiddenHeight, percentHeight;
   var currentWidth, viewWidth;
-  for (var i = 0, ii = views.length; i < ii; ++i) {
+  var firstVisibleElemInd = binarySearchFirstItem(views,
+                                                  isElemBottomBelowViewTop);
+
+  for (var i = firstVisibleElemInd, ii = views.length; i < ii; i++) {
     view = views[i];
-    currentHeight = view.el.offsetTop + view.el.clientTop;
-    viewHeight = view.el.clientHeight;
-    if ((currentHeight + viewHeight) < top) {
-      continue;
-    }
+    elem = view.el;
+    currentHeight = elem.offsetTop + elem.clientTop;
+    viewHeight = elem.clientHeight;
+
     if (currentHeight > bottom) {
       break;
     }
-    currentWidth = view.el.offsetLeft + view.el.clientLeft;
-    viewWidth = view.el.clientWidth;
-    if ((currentWidth + viewWidth) < left || currentWidth > right) {
+
+    currentWidth = elem.offsetLeft + elem.clientLeft;
+    viewWidth = elem.clientWidth;
+    if (currentWidth + viewWidth < left || currentWidth > right) {
       continue;
     }
     hiddenHeight = Math.max(0, top - currentHeight) +
       Math.max(0, currentHeight + viewHeight - bottom);
     percentHeight = ((viewHeight - hiddenHeight) * 100 / viewHeight) | 0;
 
-    visible.push({ id: view.id, x: currentWidth, y: currentHeight,
-      view: view, percent: percentHeight });
+    visible.push({
+      id: view.id,
+      x: currentWidth,
+      y: currentHeight,
+      view: view,
+      percent: percentHeight
+    });
   }
 
   var first = visible[0];