> Yeah, who uses rendering a manpage in a tight loop ;) If it runs on > the older machines in a few seconds I don't think its going to be an > issue. And it isn't that slow is it?
As someone who still routinely uses "older machines", if it is significantly slower than nroff, it will be a problem in practice. Manpage rendering with nroff as formatter is _already_ slow enough to be annoying on slower machines, in my experience. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B