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From: | oe |
Subject: | Re: [Groff] What does the "-u" in ".tmac-u" mean? |
Date: | Sun, 5 Nov 2017 11:32:10 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 |
Am 05.11.2017 um 11:11 schrieb Ralph Corderoy:
Hi, Werner wrote:Branden wrote:I move that we stop stripping the files. Stripping them is saving us only a few hundred kB out of 25 megs.It's not about saving disk space. Remember that groff is an interpreted language *without* a translation to an internal representation.[*] This means, for example, that a comment within a loop with 1000 repeats gets parsed a thousand times, again and again.Right. And we visited this a couple of years ago, with various experiments then. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2015-03/msg00045.html
Thanks for reminding us on this former discussion.It really looks like we should use the unstripped version only in future releases.
Makes the build process easier. Heinz
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