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r: 189081
b: refs/heads/tmp
c: 4a6fb45
h: refs/heads/master
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  189079: 184a44d
v: v3

Author: lifthrasiir

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@@ -34,5 +34,5 @@ refs/heads/building: 126db549b038c84269a1e4fe46f051b2c15d6970
 refs/heads/beta: 522d09dfecbeca1595f25ac58c6d0178bbd21d7d
 refs/heads/windistfix: 7608dbad651f02e837ed05eef3d74a6662a6e928
 refs/tags/1.0.0-alpha: e42bd6d93a1d3433c486200587f8f9e12590a4d7
-refs/heads/tmp: 9e28156551c1a2af3c47a0937290176ccc457703
+refs/heads/tmp: 4a6fb45ee1c51a67d75d99244446868b36f22cc6
 refs/tags/1.0.0-alpha.2: 4c705f6bc559886632d3871b04f58aab093bfa2f

branches/tmp/src/librustdoc/html/render.rs

@@ -2209,7 +2209,14 @@ impl<'a> fmt::Display for Sidebar<'a> {
         let it = self.item;
         let parentlen = cx.current.len() - if it.is_mod() {1} else {0};
 
-        // this is not rendered via JS, as that would hamper the accessibility
+        // the sidebar is designed to display sibling functions, modules and
+        // other miscellaneous informations. since there are lots of sibling
+        // items (and that causes quadratic growth in large modules),
+        // we refactor common parts into a shared JavaScript file per module.
+        // still, we don't move everything into JS because we want to preserve
+        // as much HTML as possible in order to allow non-JS-enabled browsers
+        // to navigate the documentation (though slightly inefficiently).
+
         try!(write!(fmt, "<p class='location'>"));
         for (i, name) in cx.current.iter().take(parentlen).enumerate() {
             if i > 0 {