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@@ -48,7 +48,14 @@ releases the 5 or 6 language definitions he has running on his web site, it migh
 
   By comparison, source-highlight can do about 5000 lines of C code per
   second... And launching the program 100 times on an empty file takes about
-  5 seconds.
+  5 seconds, which isn't bad. And, it has a C++ library, which it
+  seems likely perl bindings could be written for, to eliminate 
+  even that overhead.
+  > [highlight](http://www.andre-simon.de) has similar features to source-highlight, and swig bindings
+  > that should make it trivial in principle to call from perl.  I like highlight a bit better because 
+  > it has a pass-through feature that I find very useful.  My memory is unfortunately a bit fuzzy as to how
+  > well the swig bindings work. [[DavidBremner]]
+
 
 * Engines that already support a wide variety of file types are of
   course preferred. If the engine doesn't support a particular type