> I move that we stop stripping the files. Stripping them is saving
> us only a few hundred kB out of 25 megs.
It's not about saving disk space. Remember that groff is an
interpreted language *without* a translation to an internal
representation.[*] This means, for example, that a comment within a
loop with 1000 repeats gets parsed a thousand times, again and again.
Ditto for not stripped-off leading spaces. Similarly, longer macro
names take a longer time for being parsed. This can make a
significant difference even today for operations that should be as
fast as possible.
Werner
[*] Contrary to TeX, say.
