> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 18:27:53 +0100 > From: Gavin Smith <[email protected]> > > As you may know I've been rewriting Paragraph.pm, the formatter module > for paragraphs, in C, to be used as a loadable XS module by Perl. Due > to Perl's slow text processing capabilities, paragraph formatting > takes up a sizable proportion of the run-time of makeinfo/texi2any > when outputting an Info file. > > For comparison, here's the timing of a run using the Perl Paragraph.pm > on the sources of the Emacs Lisp manual (about 3.3 megs of Texinfo > source): > > real 0m54.751s > user 0m46.124s > sys 0m0.266s > > Now using the C replacement: > > real 0m34.367s > user 0m29.865s > sys 0m0.267s
Thanks, it would be great to see this kind of speedup.
