> > you need to keep an eye on where tex spends its time on, and much is > related to loading fonts, reading files, saving output, etc and with > multiple threads one would have to coordinate that and make sure the time > spent on it does not become larger overall > > for instance, in your document making these large tables takes a while only > because bTABLE is not that fast, so when at some point i can redo part of > such mechanisms in lua we might gain way more runtime than by running > distributed > > Hans >
If you are under Linux you can try /dev/shm http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/what-is-devshm-and-its-practical-usage.html -- luigi
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