Re: Texinfo 7.1 released

[Gavin Smith]

On Sun, Oct 22, 2023 at 09:06:39PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Thanks.  Looks like the slowdown is in XSParagraph: without it, I get
> 21.8 sec, only slightly slower than Texinfo 7.0.3.  Disabling MiscXS
> as well yields almost the same time (0.05 sec longer) as with MiscXS,
> and disabling Parsetexi gets us back to 37 sec, the same as with
> TEXINFO_XS=omit.

It does effect a slight speedup in my testing.

A typical timing with MiscXS enabled (7.1)

real    0m5.570s
user    0m5.395s
sys     0m0.168s

A typical timing with MiscXS disabled (7.1):

real    0m5.745s
user    0m5.555s
sys     0m0.181s

That comes out as about a 3% prolongation.

If as I suspect dTHX is slower on MS-Windows then the overhead of calling
these XS functions may swamp the otherwise shorter execution times.