> That sounds like a pretty neat idea. But wouldn't using TeX to do the > tangling be inefficient for large programs? (This isn't a rhetorical > question; I have no idea.)
i have no idea but i do have practical experience. in work i have a project that is a literate program. the pamphlet file has 127862 lines. the generated lisp file has 60184 lines. the dvi file has 3240 pages. remaking the whole pile takes (on a 3.2GHz machine) about 25 seconds for noweb about 3 seconds for latex -> dvi about 3 seconds for clisp executable image about 3 seconds for regression tests noweb is a bottleneck for my work project and all it has to do is mmap the file, create a hash table of the chunks, and recursively walk the <<*>> tag. so i'm not worried about the time latex might take. t _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
