On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 09:09:31 +0100
Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> At 08:53 AM 2/12/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> >Hartmut Henkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > > So there might be some corner for improvement. Using strcmp() the
> > > reverse way seems not to speed up things; how to write a more
> > > sophisticated inequality-checker?
> >
> >Heiko stated that he used a hash table for this. This will speed up
> >things dramatically.
> 
> but if i remember right he only looked at the first 8 chars (assuming 
> berry) which is not that useful for texnansi-* files -)
> 
> the best way (imo) is to let later entries overload previous ones, so not 
> much checking is needed at all;

I remember this discussion on the pdftex-list and can still not understand
why we should look for overloaded entries. pdftex should take the first match.

pdftex --mapfile=some.map overrides the default of the pdftex.cnf
Additional \pdfmapfile in the tex-code get higher priority than
the settings in pdftex.cnf or --mapfile and will be read first.
Thus, if pdftex has found all required fonts it can stop reading
the map-files, which can speed-up the process dramatically.
In most documents pdftex has only to read 4-6 map files with about
10-20 entries.


Jens
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