</blockquote><p><b>Q.</b> Why is the <tt>noweb</tt> command so slow?


<p><blockquote><b>A.</b> It's expensive to create a TeX file, so
<pre>noweb foo</pre>
is probably at least 5 times slower than
<pre>noweb -t foo</pre>
and in an edit/compile/debug cycle you may not need the docs and can
   use the faster form.
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<p><b>Q.</b>  What is the origin of the ``no'' prefix in <tt>noweb</tt> ?

<p><blockquote><b>A.</b>
I wrote <tt>noweb</tt> at a time when language-dependent webs were
proliferating, 