Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die

[Paul Eggert]

On 12/07/2014 06:30 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I think I understand why they don't want to fix the processing speed.
> But we should still push them to provide workarounds.  "Separate
> compilation" would solve this problem

It might, yes.  But that sounds like more work than switching input 
formats would be, if some other input format already has good support 
for most of what we want.

> Indeed the slowdown (factor 100 IIRC last time I measured it) is
> a serious problem.

Absolutely.  Texinfo's performance is a real turnoff for me, and it 
can't be encouraging potential contributors.

One possible way to move forward would be to try one or two alternatives 
(Org mode, Asciidoc, whatever) on something relatively small.  It 
wouldn't have to be an Emacs manual.  We could use the proposed new 
technology or technologies on (say) the Grep manual, and see how well it 
works there.  This would mimic how we already did the Gnulib and Git 
conversions: we first converted smaller projects, and eventually got 
around to Emacs.