From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 19:39:06 +0200 Message-ID: <83d27swwn9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20141205123549.GA29331@thyrsus.com> <2815659.zRQ0WWWeRr@descartes> <20141205175810.GD3120@thyrsus.com> <87lhmlncb1.fsf@earlgrey.lan> <20141205193643.GB5067@thyrsus.com> <87tx19rd1b.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20141205215138.GF7784@thyrsus.com> <54823617.4000406@cs.ucla.edu> <83k325195l.fsf@gnu.org> <5482D94B.2070102@cs.ucla.edu> <5484FF31.5010808@cs.ucla.edu> <5485FC59.5030700@cs.ucla.edu> <83k320wy93.fsf@gnu.org> <87388oka0k.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418146784 12850 80.91.229.3 (9 Dec 2014 17:39:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 17:39:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 09 18:39:37 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XyOl7-0000qg-2d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:39:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41627 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyOl6-0007RR-MP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:39:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42972) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyOkx-0007Ph-5v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:39:33 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyOkr-0004AZ-42 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:39:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:60174) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyOkj-0004AA-Pg; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:39:13 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NGB00J00SYDTV00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 19:39:12 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NGB00G3WT1CRQ70@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 19:39:12 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87388oka0k.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179581 Archived-At: > From: David Kastrup > Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 18:28:43 +0100 > > > Makeinfo validates pointers and cross-references that could lead into > > many other parts. Separate compilation would need to leave some info > > about those other parts in a form that is much more easily readable. > > Much more easily readable than Texinfo source? Texinfo source does not > seem hard to parse to me. What am I overlooking? Not sure. But then why is the Perl implementation so slow? I thought one reason was that it was built around a parser, something the original C version didn't even try to do.