On Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:36:28 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Building the docs takes far too long. Much of the blame for that lies with
> Sphinx, but some of it is under our own control. These two patches
> eliminate a bunch of useless work in the automarkup extension.
>
> Benchmarking Sphinx runs is hard, as the run time can be rather variable.
> I have consistently found about a 15% speedup from these patches, though,
> with no output changes.
>
> Testing was done with Sphinx 4.4.0 and 5.0.2. My systems all have Python
> 3.10 installed, and there does not appear, alas, to be a straightforward
> way to get Sphinx 3.x to run on that version. Versions of Sphinx prior to
> 3.0 will not be affected by these changes.
They look nice improvements, indeed!
On my rather non-performant machine with Python 3.9.2 + Sphinx 5.0.2,
elapsed time of "make htmldocs" decreased about 12% without any difference
in generated HTML files.
For the series:
Tested-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx>
Thanks, Akira
>
> Jonathan Corbet (2):
> docs: automarkup: track failed cross-reference attempts
> docs: automarkup: do not look up symbols twice
>
> Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py | 56 +++++++++++++++++-------------
> 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>
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> 2.36.1
