On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: > Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: >> >>> we can spend a lot of time to make it more advanced but within a year >>> from now we will have mp as a library in tex which willreduce runtime to >>> nearly zero (at least that 's what experiments show) so .... >>> >> Even when mp is available as a lib, it will not reduce runtime to >> nearly zero? The time to start a mp process will be negligible, but >> processing an mp file will still take time. In the mp diagrams that I >> have, processing each diagram takes about 10 sec [1]. Occasionally >> > you mean that mp needs 10 sec per graphic? impressive
It is not just mp. It was a combination of mp ... textext ... metaobj ... conversion to pdf. Doing some tests right now, I see that the main culprit was btex ... etex. Replacing all btex ... etex with \sometxt makes things really fast (~15 sec for 8 graphics). I just thought that metaobj was to blame but it is not. Maybe, I can get around without statics :-) Aditya _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
