man slow to bring up manpages

[Dat Head <dathead2 at gmail dot com>]

I thought it was maybe because they were gzipped so I ungzipped a few
favorites to see if that helped but
it didn't, so I did a trace on a man and it seems to spend an awful
lot of time in certain spots:

CYGWIN_NT-5.1 rootboy2 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin

17:59:10 [read_pipe] troff 2008 cygthread::stub: thread 'read_pipe',
id 0xC80, stack_ptr 0x188ECDC0
17:59:10 [main] tbl 3376 readv: 65536 = readv (0, 0x22CB20, 1), errno 0
17:59:18 [main] tbl 3376 sig_send: sendsig 0x734, pid 3376, signal -34, its_me 1
17:59:18 [main] tbl 3376 sig_send: wakeup 0x718


17:59:22 [main] troff 2008 fhandler_base::write: binary write
17:59:23 [main] tbl 3376 readv: 65536 = readv (0, 0x22CB20, 1), errno 0
17:59:25 [main] grotty 4084 readv: 1335 = readv (0, 0x22CB80, 1), errno 0

17:59:26 [main] troff 2008 fhandler_base::write: binary write
17:59:31 [main] grotty 4084 readv: 28727 = readv (0, 0x22CB80, 1), errno 0


17:59:33 [main] grotty 4084 fhandler_base::fstat: here
17:59:33 [main] grotty 4084 fstat64: 0 = fstat (1, 0x22CAF0)
17:59:44 [main] grotty 4084 fhandler_base::set_flags: flags 0x10000,
supplied_bin 0x0

17:59:58 [main] grotty 4084 fhandler_base::close: closing
'/usr/share/groff/1.19.2/font/devascii/I' handle 0x710
17:59:58 [main] grotty 4084 close: 0 = close (4)
18:00:00 [main] troff 2008 readv: 65536 = readv (0, 0x22C590, 1), errno 2
18:00:02 [main] tbl 3376 readv: 0 = readv (0, 0x22CB20, 1), errno 0
18:00:02 [main] tbl 3376 sig_send: sendsig 0x734, pid 3376, signal -34, its_me1

18:00:06 [main] troff 2008 sig_send: returning 0x0 from sending signal -34
18:00:06 [main] troff 2008 fhandler_base::write: binary write
18:00:13 [main] grotty 4084 fhandler_base::set_flags: flags 0x10000,
supplied_bin 0x0

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