Re: bad makeinfo slowdown

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 09:13:32 +0100
> From: Patrice Dumas <address@hidden>
> 
> The overhead of doing the tree instead of just parsing the Texinfo
> and converting on the fly is certainly very minor in any case.  The 
> slowdown comes using perl, in my opinion

If somebody wants to be serious about speeding up the new
implementation, then this assumption should be verified and backed up
by profiling, IMO.  Unless Perl implementation of string comparison is
50 times slower than C, I would be hard pressed to believe that using
Perl is the main reason for the slowdown.  Because the original C
implementation of makeinfo did little except comparing fixed strings
and walking in-memory strings character by character, for the
"parsing" part.