Re: [Groff] groff performance in respect to hardware platform

[Larry Kollar]

> Steve Izma <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I'm wondering how CPU configurations affect groff processing
> speed.

On a 2007 MacBook Pro, groff would produce a 900-page manual with a few 
graphics in 2-3 minutes. That was two groff runs to get cross-refs right, 
including index generation, followed by a ps2pdf run. More or larger graphics 
affect the generation time more than the page count.

So any non-netbook, five years old or less, will perform pretty well with 
groff. Unless you’re Deri James and doing batch runs of half a million pages. 
:-D

—Larry