From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rustom Mody Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to build emacs without documentation? Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 08:26:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1376412724 32464 80.91.229.3 (13 Aug 2013 16:52:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:52:04 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 13 18:52:08 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1V9HpI-0005Ny-BQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 18:52:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58123 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V9Gd9-0004XD-1l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 11:35:31 -0400 X-Received: by 10.224.137.68 with SMTP id v4mr1189734qat.1.1376407610725; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 08:26:50 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.20.3 with SMTP id j3mr237726ige.2.1376407610662; Tue, 13 Aug 2013 08:26:50 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!f7no2222473qan.0!news-out.google.com!he10ni1415qab.0!nntp.google.com!fx3no2330128qab.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.17.194; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.17.194 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 15:26:50 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200580 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92854 Archived-At: 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 ]