Re: info files

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> How did they manage to make makeinfo so much slower?

Oh, they rewrote it in Perl.  :-/

I compared building a smaller manual with Emacs compared to makeinfo:

address@hidden texi]$ time emacs -batch -q -no-site-file -l ./infohack.el -f 
batch-makeinfo emacs-mime.texi 
real    0m1.567s
user    0m1.383s
sys     0m0.141s
address@hidden texi]$ time makeinfo emacs-mime.texi 

real    0m2.885s
user    0m2.792s
sys     0m0.058s

So Emacs is now 2x faster than makeinfo.  But it seems to lack some
functionality:

@indicateurl is not handled by texinfo

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