Re: Texinfo 7.1 released

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2023 19:35:11 +0100
> Cc: bug-texinfo@gnu.org
> 
> One thing to try would to eliminate dTHX calls.  If these are
> time-consuming on MinGW/MS-Windows, then extra calls will greatly slow
> down the program, due to the number of times the paragraph formatting
> functions are called.
> 
> This patch, applied to 7.1, removes the recently added dTHX calls,
> but also removes the fprintf calls that were preventing compilation
> without it:

It doesn't help: 1:20.7 instead of 1:21.2.

> I have looked for other differences in xspara.c between Texinfo 7.0.3
> and Texinfo 7.1 and cannot really see anything suspicious.

XSParagraph inscludes other source files in addition to xspara.c --
could the changes in those other files be the cause?

> The only other thing that comes to mind that there could have been a
> change in imported gnulib modules.
> 
> Failing that, the only I idea I have is to use some kind of source-level
> profiler to find out why so much time is spent in this module.

Hmm...