Hi Per,
The new perl-based makeinfo/texi2any is almost 2 order of
magnitude slower than the old one:
Yes, we know.
That seems a shame.
Agreed. We are well aware of the painful slowness (every time I compile
texinfo.txi ...) and very much want it to be better asap. However,
Patrice already did some profiling and there is no obvious inner loop to
optimize :(. So it seems any significant improvement will probably come
from writing parts of it in C, which will imply all kinds of system- and
Perl-dependent complications. Not looking forward to that.
Also, the current perl is going to be replaced by a much cleaner
tree-based one -- Patrice already has substantial parts of it working --
so there is no use in optimizing the current implementation.
Unfortunately there is no obvious inner loop in the new implementation
either :(, at this point anyway.
Sorry ...
karl
