A long <xs:complexType> simpleContent extension chain (T0 extends T1 extends T2 ...) is flat in the document, so each of the N complex types re-walked its whole base chain to resolve the simple type its simpleContent derives from (an O(n^3) compile; a 400-link chain took ~23s). The resolved simple type is now memoized by complex-type name (SimpleContentMemo, a reference type surviving the value-type context copies, mirroring GroupParticleMemo); the same chain compiles in ~1.2s, and past the 512 expansion-depth bound it is rejected with a located error as before. Behaviour-preserving (an acyclic resolution is intrinsic to the name; a derivation cycle is rejected elsewhere), verified conformance-neutral over the full W3C XSTS corpus, the determinism differential, and the full suite. The attribute flattening along the chain is inherently quadratic in the bounded length and is tracked.
