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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@apfel.de>
To: Mike Pritchard <mpp@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit:  src/contrib/groff/tmac doc-syms
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Mike Pritchard writes:
>But the .Fx macro isn't really documentation so to speak.  
>All that adding releases that will never actually be specified
>as parameters to the macro just results in more code
>for *roff to execute.  At least .Fx isn't called that much,
>so it really isn't a big deal.  But I can still remember running on
>some older systems where I would groan if I saw the message 
>"Formatting page, please wait..." come out, due to the amount of 
>time it took to format.

groff is written in C++ and it is terrible slow. Some hackers
told me groff is 7 times slower than the original troff (C sources)
from AT&T on a SunOS machine.


>Maybe we need a releases(7) or history(7) man page to
>document this type of thing.

I can copy http://www.de.freebsd.org/de/ftp/unix-stammbaum
to /usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree.

Wolfram