I just wanted to write a short note about mandoc. You may have seen
it mentioned in some recent posts. It's a fantastic replacement for
groff.
How fantastic? This fantastic:
mini:~/src/share/man/man9> time nroff -Tascii -mandoc *.9 > /dev/null
0m2.23s real 0m2.29s user 0m0.03s system
mini:~/src/share/man/man9> time mandoc *.9 > /dev/null
0m0.20s real 0m0.19s user 0m0.01s system
Development is still going on, so you may see some bugs (please report
them, but make sure you're running the very latest first!), but this
kind of improvement to build speeds is one of the things that makes
working on OpenBSD fun. A big thank you to Kristaps for writing
mandoc, and to Ingo and the rest for working to get it off the ground.
