Re: asn1parse & man warts

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> I have a manpage (for one of my own programs) that takes some 20
>> seconds to nroff on my main desktop machine.  (time says "19.3u 0.6s
>> 0:22.10 90.4% 0+0k 87+9io 74pf+0w" in a test I just did.)
> Holy movable type, Batman!  The biggest manpage on my stock system is
> c++.1, 901,945 bytes.

This one is 122026 bytes.

> [...], that means your "main desktop machine" is 40x slower, on the
> order of 100 MHz (very roughly).

cpu0 at mainbus0: RT620/625 @ 125 MHz, on-chip FPU

It is my main desktop machine for two reasons: (1) it makes it easy to
use a keyboard I find pleasant to use and (2) sentiment.

>> Perhaps print the message if some suitable time (a second?) passes
>> and nroff isn't done?
> Maybe just #ifdef based on architecture?

Also possible.

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