On Sun, Nov 03, 2024 at 01:05:34AM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Are you sure? With a small tweak, I get the following comparison: > > alx@devuan:~/src/linux/man-pages/man-pages/main$ time lexgrog man/*/* | > wc > lexgrog: can't resolve man7/groff_man.7 > 12475 99295 919842
Comparing anything to lexgrog isn't very interesting; it's a debugging tool and is not in itself very performance-sensitive. As I've explained elsewhere, the interesting thing is mandb, which uses the same code in-process to scan a whole tree of pages in one go. I do not expect to ever want to replace that with a shell pipeline. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
