pkp/ojs — comment on commit a827abddd3f75a75572e371cfa04a675115eb671
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By asmecher:

It's the phputf8 calls that slow things down tremendously. Personally, I'm tempted to strip all that stuff out at some point; it hasn't made mixed-encoding installs work any better, and one of the TinyMCE updates that went in a few releases ago has really cleaned up content going in to the point where nothing else is really needed.