Re: [PATCH 0/2] docs: A couple of automarkup improvements

[Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:36:28 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Building the docs takes far too long.  Much of the blame for that lies with
> Sphinx, but some of it is under our own control.  These two patches
> eliminate a bunch of useless work in the automarkup extension.
> 
> Benchmarking Sphinx runs is hard, as the run time can be rather variable.
> I have consistently found about a 15% speedup from these patches, though,
> with no output changes.
> 
> Testing was done with Sphinx 4.4.0 and 5.0.2.  My systems all have Python
> 3.10 installed, and there does not appear, alas, to be a straightforward
> way to get Sphinx 3.x to run on that version.  Versions of Sphinx prior to
> 3.0 will not be affected by these changes.

They look nice improvements, indeed!

On my rather non-performant machine with Python 3.9.2 + Sphinx 5.0.2,
elapsed time of "make htmldocs" decreased about 12% without any difference
in generated HTML files.

For the series:

Tested-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>

        Thanks, Akira
> 
> Jonathan Corbet (2):
>   docs: automarkup: track failed cross-reference attempts
>   docs: automarkup: do not look up symbols twice
> 
>  Documentation/sphinx/automarkup.py | 56 +++++++++++++++++-------------
>  1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> 
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> 2.36.1