Hi, Werner wrote: > Branden wrote: > > 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.
Right. And we visited this a couple of years ago, with various experiments then. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2015-03/msg00045.html -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
