writing a postscript interpreter that kinda works is not a very hard task. writing a ps interpreter that gets the graphics right, particularly colour, is very tedious and takes a lot of man hours. optimizing the interpreter so it spits out >20 pages/min is not fun. i've been involved in the writing of three ps interpreters. i believe there are still printers in the wild, and even being sold, that have the undocumented %brucee inbuilt file (my 48x48x1, a one liner can image it full-page).
brucee On 10/4/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue Oct 3 16:49:10 EDT 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... > ...but from the looks of it, maybe it would be easier to "fix" > ghostscript by making it faster/slimmer/etc. I wonder if it runs > better on some architectures than others? If so, sounds like a good > job for a cpu server. > > -Jack As we get older, faster/slimmer/etc. gets harder and harder and eventually we just buy bigger jeans.
