> Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2023 09:43:19 -0500 > From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx, dirk@xxxxxxxxxxx, cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx, > linux-man@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, help-texinfo@xxxxxxx, groff@xxxxxxx > > ...which brings me to the other factor, of which I'm more confident: man > page rendering times are much lower than they were in Unix's early days. > > On my system, all groff man pages but one render in between a tenth and > a fortieth of a second. The really huge pages like groff(7), > groff_char(7), and groff_diff(7) are toward the upper end of this range, > because they are long, at ~20-25 U.S. letter pages when formatted for > PostScript or PDF, or have many large tables so the tbl(1) preprocessor > produces a lot of output. > > The outlier is groff_mdoc(7) at just over one-third of a second. Some people consider 0.1 sec, let alone 0.3 sec, to be long enough to be annoying. Also, did you try with libpng.3 or gcc.1? > Human subjects need a minimum of about 0.1 second of visual experience > or about .01 to .02 second of auditory experience to perceive > duration; any shorter experiences are called instantaneous. > -- Encyclopædia Britannica[2] IME, 0.05 sec of visual experiences is closer to reality. Anyway, I won't argue.
