Re: makeinfo 5.0 is 34x slower when building Emacs info

[Per Bothner]

On 02/20/2013 04:20 PM, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Mi, 20 Feb 2013, Per Bothner wrote:
> > would be C++:  It has modularity, better standard higher-level
> > libraries than C, performance, and portability.  (I'd be tempted
>
> I disagree with the portability aspect. perl with the standard modules
> is much more portable then whatever C++ code one can write.
> Thinking about the problems we have with C++ code in other projects
> (eg xetex) to get compiled on everything from old solaris to whatever,
> I honestly prefer Perl.

Perhaps - but I'm suggesting that C++ may be the best compromise when you
look at the combination of portability, performance, and "power"
(expressiveness, compact and flexible code, modularity etc).  Perl is
fine on portability and power, but we clearly have a problem when it
comes to performance.
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