> From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0...@gmail.com> > Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2023 09:47:10 +0000 > Cc: pertu...@free.fr, bug-texinfo@gnu.org > > > On my system, which is a > > 12-year old Windows XP, producing the Emacs Lisp Reference manual for > > Emacs 27.2 takes just 18.1 sec of CPU time, so how come Gavin reports > > such huge timings? I measured with Texinfo 7.0.1 -- are you saying > > that the current version from the Texinfo Git's master branch is so > > much slower? Did we not use Unicode::Collate in Texinfo 7.0.x? > > Yes, it is much slower than 7.0.x. Unicode::Collate was only introduced > after the 7.0 release.
Then this is an awful performance regression, and it should be fixed before the next major release, IMO.
