Re: texi2any is too slow because of Unicode::Collate

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2023 09:47:10 +0000
> Cc: pertusus@free.fr, bug-texinfo@gnu.org
> 
> >  On my system, which is a
> > 12-year old Windows XP, producing the Emacs Lisp Reference manual for
> > Emacs 27.2 takes just 18.1 sec of CPU time, so how come Gavin reports
> > such huge timings?  I measured with Texinfo 7.0.1 -- are you saying
> > that the current version from the Texinfo Git's master branch is so
> > much slower?  Did we not use Unicode::Collate in Texinfo 7.0.x?
> 
> Yes, it is much slower than 7.0.x.  Unicode::Collate was only introduced
> after the 7.0 release.

Then this is an awful performance regression, and it should be fixed
before the next major release, IMO.