Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2025 at 12:25:30PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >> Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> > make -j56 htmldocs 2355.99s user 141.33s system 158% cpu 26:14.86 total > >> That ... is weird... it takes me a little under 3 minutes to do an >> htmldocs build, using a capable but not stellar desktop machine. > >> Which version of Sphinx are you using? If you're not on Sphinx 8, you >> really want to be; they finally fixed some really nasty performance >> problems with that release. > > I appear to be on version 5.3 which is what's in my distro. I will get > 8.1.3 when I upgrade, I don't really have any intention of manually > installing an unpackaged copy. That version will be far slower, certainly. Just FWIW, installing a newer version in a venv is trivially easy to do. jon
