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

[Paul Eggert]

David Engster wrote:
>   ~/git-2.2.0/Documentation> time asciidoc -b html user-manual.txt
>   asciidoc -b html user-manual.txt  7.26s user 0.02s system 90% cpu 8.068 total
>
> That's for 4.5k lines.
>
>   ~/emacs/doc/misc> time makeinfo --html gnus.texi
>   makeinfo --html gnus.texi  2.00s user 0.04s system 85% cpu 2.385 total
>
> That's for 30k lines. Yes, that's texinfo4, of course

That's a bit unfair to Texinfo, since gnus.texi @includes other files, and one 
should count all its input lines.  Conversely, Texinfo 4 is no longer maintained 
and misses some useful new features, so one should measure Texinfo 5, which is 
waaayyy slooower.  Furthermore, the (newer) asciidoctor is an order of magnitude 
faster than the (older) asciidoc, and it's not entirely fair to be using the 
way-slower variant in a benchmark.

So overall I'm afraid the above numbers don't mean all that much.