On 6/26/21, Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarn...@rhi.hi.is> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 01:48:15AM +1000, G. Branden Robinson wrote: >> 1. "Skip the stripper". Mooted several times on this list in the past, >> this proposal to stop shipping some macro packages (hdtbl, mdoc, and >> "me") in a condensed, hard-to-read form akin to JavaScript >> minification already enjoys a consensus, but was shelved on perceived >> scheduling grounds. >> <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55091> > > a) I do not see a consensus;
The bug report at the URL above links to past mailing-list threads from 2017 to 2019 showing pretty consistent agreement about this. The 2019 thread even contains data on the performance difference between stripped and unstripped versions when processing a large mdoc document, showing this difference to be negligible. > there is no voting, > no resolution, Our process has never been that formal. > no mentioning of side effects, You are free to mention any side effects that concern you. > thus no informed consensus, > just people speculating, > showing (me at least) a startling lack of > 1) knowledge > 2) intelligence. You can argue your case as strongly as you like, but insulting other list members is not likely to win over many people. > Not using such a file makes the software less effective; > thus such a move is simply a sabotage. Please give some concrete examples of ways in which it is less effective. > Is there also a consensus, that the maintainer, that introduced this > mechanism of removing meaningless (time, energy, processing cycles > wasting) bytes, made a mistake, an error? No, I think it's pretty widely understood that performance was more of a concern in the past than it is on 21st-century hardware.
