Re: Texinfo 7.1 released

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2023 14:23:53 +0100
> Cc: bug-texinfo@gnu.org
> 
> > > First, check that the Perl extension modules are actually being used.  Try
> > > setting the TEXINFO_XS environment variable to "require" or "debug".
> > 
> > I don't need to do that, I already verified that extensions are used
> > when I worked on the pretests (which, as you might remember, caused
> > Perl to crash at first).
> 
> I'd expected so, just wanted to make sure.

Surprise: running with TEXINFO_XS=omit _reduces_ the elapsed time of
producing the Emacs ELisp manual from 1:21.16 to 0:36.97.  Disabling
Unicode::Collate on top of that has almost no effect (about 1 sec).

What do you think I should try next?