From: Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to build emacs without documentation?
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 08:26:50 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ff6524f4-3eae-40f1-bf47-50354998c4e0@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvzjslir38.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org>
On Tuesday, August 13, 2013 8:21:51 PM UTC+5:30, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> As for "info", well, that was pretty much immediate until Texinfo-5.0
> came along. So you might like to downgrade to Texinfo-4.x to enjoy
> a more normal speed.
>
> I still have no idea how they managed to slow things down so much.
> It feels like it's a good 100 times slower. Actual measurement will
> probably show the slowdown factor to be smaller, but still the
> difference is insane.
It seems to have switched from C to perl
http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/History.html#History
Reading Joel Spolsky http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
would have been a good idea!
And perl?? In 2013?!?!
[BTW I bothered to look this up because of the nuisance that an orgmode build including git pull seems to take forever in the makeinfo phase ]
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2013-08-13 14:51 ` how to build emacs without documentation? Stefan Monnier
2013-08-13 15:26 ` Rustom Mody [this message]
2013-08-13 16:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.3136.1376411515.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-08-14 16:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-14 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-11 14:27 Gregor Zattler
2013-08-13 15:52 ` Glenn Morris
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