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. Three minutes would be more reasonable, though without a clean build (and I guess something that errors on warnings so I don't actually need to look at the output myself) I'm not sure I'd notice any issues.
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