Each beam-search step deep-cloned the keys and values of every layer
for every candidate it kept, so the cost grew quadratically with the
sentence length and produced garbage faster than the unrolled dot()
could win. Survivors are now chosen first; a beam whose parent has a
single survivor takes its slices over (the parent is dead), and only a
shared cache is cloned. The step's other buffers (query/key/value,
hidden, logits) are reused across layers, beams and steps instead of
being allocated afresh each time. TestRealModel confirms the output is
unchanged.
The hand-written PDF writer uses the standard Courier fonts
(WinAnsiEncoding), so any character outside CP1252 - a Polish, Greek,
Cyrillic or CJK script - was silently written as '?'. Render now
collects the characters it had to replace and returns them, and the
export dialog lists them in a warning once the file is written.
Embedding a TrueType font (e.g. Courier Prime) with a CID/ToUnicode
map would fix the root cause; the warning keeps the zero-dependency
trade-off honest in the meantime.
Downloading the 300 MB model restarted from zero after any failure and
hung forever on a stalled connection. Download into a .partial file
that survives interruptions, resume it with a Range request (falling
back to a fresh download when the server cannot), skip files already
verified, and abort when nothing arrives for 30 s. A model directory
only counts as installed when every file has its pinned size, so a
truncated model is offered for download again instead of failing to
load.
The model load held the translation mutex, so Cancel did nothing for
the seconds it takes to read 300 MB. Load without holding the lock,
make marian.Load context-aware, and let CancelTranslation wait for the
task to wind down so a new one can start at once. The idle release
timer re-arms when it fires while a download holds the task slot,
instead of never freeing the model.
Kharec