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Re: SCWM's embedded docs/text proc benchmarks/perl's 10x faster than guile.


"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:

 > Harvey J. Stein writes:
 > >  1) There's been some talk of using a similar documentation system for
 > >     guile, but I'd assume you'd need a guile version of the
 > >     extractor.  Jim's also said that they need to generate info pages,
 > >     not sgml.  It should be pretty easy to modify my version to also
 > >     output texinfo or info.
 > 
 > Better to stick to the Docbook DTD in my opinion, and produce a more
 > general tool to create TeXinfo from the SGML. There is a reason lots
 > of people are moving towards using the Docbook based tools.

So you're basically suggesting that we do without info & tex output
until someone writes docbook->info & docbook->tex drivers, even though
it'd be pretty trivial to output texinfo directly from the extractor.

-- 
Harvey J. Stein
BFM Financial Research
hjstein@bfr.co.il