[glofish]

I wrote a sizeable book with gitbook and I found it to have substantial design flaws. Once the book had a few hundred files the rendering became exceedingly slow.

It became clear to me that, internally some sort of scaling problem is present in the code that manifests itself abruptly once the book hits a certain size.

Rendering to html would take 2-3 minutes (attempting to reload the latest version of a single page also triggers a complete re-rendering of all pages, obviously making the process non-feasible).

I migrated to bookdown that renders the entire book in about 10 seconds (and reloads single pages quickly).

I wonder if honkit fixed those internal design errors that made gitbook unusuable for me.