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[bug #55091] stop stripping comments and spaces from installed macro pac
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Dave |
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[bug #55091] stop stripping comments and spaces from installed macro packages |
Date: |
Sat, 24 Nov 2018 22:06:32 -0500 (EST) |
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Summary: stop stripping comments and spaces from installed
macro packages
Project: GNU troff
Submitted by: barx
Submitted on: Sat 24 Nov 2018 09:06:30 PM CST
Category: Macro - others
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Build/Installation
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Details:
This has historically been a contentious issue on the email list, but the
discussion is hard to find in the archive, so I'm opening this bug report to
consolidate it in one place.
And truthfully, the last couple of times it came up, no one stepped forward to
defend the practice of stripping. See threads starting at:
* http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2017-11/msg00104.html
* http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2018-03/msg00048.html (which later
strays from stripping in general to the implementation details of a -mom fix)
* http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2018-03/msg00054.html
The trade-off under consideration is between execution speed (stripped files)
and readability of the files (unstripped files). The performance argument
becomes less relevant the more time passes, while the legibility argument
remains unchanged. This suggests that eventually there will be a tipping
point, where the gains in performance will no longer justify the loss of
legibility.
Is 2018 that point?
Are there any holdouts who want to argue in favor of continuing to strip?
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