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

Harvey J. Stein (hjstein@bfr.co.il)
15 Aug 1998 11:29:20 +0300

"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.

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