Re: Preparation for use of XS paragraph formatting module

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 18:27:53 +0100
> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
> 
> 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.