On Sat, Nov 04, 2023 at 01:18:58PM +0000, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 28, 2023 at 05:42:51PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > I managed to disable a lot of the new XS code and get the test suite
> > to pass.  I had to leave the XS translation module active due to the
> > coupling that now exists between it and the XS parser.
> 
> This patch wasn't working any more so I updated it.  "make check" passes
> with the patch below.

At that point, using a new env variable to use perl for
structuring/transformations would be very easy based on your patch.
If you give a name, I can do it.

> Applying this patch slows the program down by about 3% now.  However,
> it could still be useful for investigating why development texi2any is
> still significantly slower (about 5%) than texi2any 7.1.  It seems that
> even if the new XS structuring/other modules speed the program up slightly,
> there must be slowdown somewhere else.

To me the most likely reason would be that simple_parser has been
removed, such that calls of gdt/pgdt from perl are slower.

-- 
Pat

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