[racket-dev] scribble/srcdoc

This is awesome.

My OpenCL planet package, which used srcdoc heavily, used to take over
4 hours to compile on my machine. (I actually don't know how long it
took, because I didn't have the patience. At some point in the past,
it only took about an hour.)

Now, it takes 60 seconds.

Go Matthew! You're the best!

Jay

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> If you use `scribble/srcdoc', please check that the latest version
> still works on your code.
>
> I've changed the implementation to use submodules. In the old
> implementation, `require/doc' and `provide/doc' expanded to
> syntax-quoted constants that the compiler would drop when creating
> bytecode (so that there would be no documentation overhead for a
> module), and so `include-extracted' would use `expand' on the module
> source to find the information. Submodules solve the problem of having
> extra information in a module that is not loaded with the module's
> code, so the `expand' approach is not longer necessary.
>
> Instead of `require/doc', you can use the new `for-doc' sub-form within
> `require'. Instead of `provide/doc', just use `provide'; `proc-doc',
> etc., are all `provide' sub-forms.
>
> The new forms are different in many subtle ways. Mostly, the new
> implementation should work in corners where the old implementation
> wouldn't.
>
> There is at least one pattern, however, that no longer works by
> default. Suppose that modules `a' and `b' refer to each other in
> documentation. That is, `a' contains `(require (for-doc (for-label
> a)))' and `b' contains `(require (for-doc (for-label b)))'. With the
> old implementation, `for-doc' requires (via `require/doc') were
> effectively copied to the module that uses `include-extracted'; with
> the new implementation, `for-doc' requires turn into `require's within
> a submodule, so that cycle would not be allowed. To get delayed
> `require's more like the old implementation, use the
> `generate-delayed-documents' declaration (which is still not
> implemented with expand', but instead with relatively simple macro
> juggling).
>
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