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

[Karl Berry]

Hi Joel,

    Is there a free Perl compiler?

I mentioned Perl compilers in my first message :).  In short, they offer
no substantive help.

There's the usable compiler that you found which precompiles to byte
code, but the Perl-source parse phase is not the time consumer here.  So
it would help a little but isn't going to make anyone happy.

And there's an unusable ("development", "alpha", "doesn't work")
compiler that compiles a Perl program to C (and not just a byte code +
interpreter).  The description of its status doesn't give me cause for
optimism that it will ever be a realistic choice.


Regarding your other message, about writing up your texinfo/texi2html
woes: it can only help to write such a thing up, while the agony is
fresh in your mind :).  Maybe it would make sense to post it on your web
site somewhere, I could link to it, and if it turns out there are lots
of texi2html users who find it and make use of it, we could think about
doing some more formally in the manual, or somewhere.  Sound reasonable?

Thanks,
Karl