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Re: Summary of man-page formatting
> 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.
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