Re: [boost] Boost documentation

From: Gennadiy Rozental (gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-25 00:48:51

"Rene Rivera" <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
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> Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
>> "Matias Capeletto" <matias.capeletto_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
>> news:e9b043a10706230826od2db317ic2cb90f1bfdb561_at_mail.gmail.com...
>>> Also, compare the size of the docs source:
>>>
>>> Boost.Bimap docs in docbook: 1.1 MB
>>> Boost.Bimap docs in quickbook: 0.3 MB
>>>
>>> It is a real difference.
>>
>> The real difference would be the comparison of non WS chars (and exclude 
>> all
>> quickbook related artifacts from DocBook)
>
> You do know that XML is one of the most verbose data formats in
> existence, right?

So what? Above comparison still prove nothing.

> I would bet that even compressing a docbook file and
> corresponding quickbook file would yield quickbook the winner.

yes. I see ~30%. Again, what is the point of this comparison?

Gennadiy