On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 06:06:39PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > 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. True but try and balance that with what they are trying to do, clean things up. I'm retired so my opinion doesn't count but I think they are on the right path.
