[racket-dev] [plt] Push #25660: master branch updated

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 7 19:57:01 EST 2012

I very much appreciate efforts to speed up the documentation build!

But I'm not sure why doing @interactions[] at compile time will be a win.

Robby

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Danny Yoo <dyoo at racket-lang.org> wrote:
> Somewhat small change.  But it was low-hanging fruit, and I needed to make
> some kind of progress.  :)
>
> I'll look into the stress tests and will try to add an appropriate one for
> the xexpr displaying function.
>
>
> The place where Scribble documentation generation uses a lot of time appears
> to be the evaluations that feed @interactions.  (I have some ideas on
> pushing the computation for @interactions off to compile-time, but haven't
> cooked and taste-tested the ideas yet.)
>
>
> There's a surprising amount of time spent turning the part/element structure
> into the xexprs (about 9 seconds), and I was going to look into that next.
>
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