Re: [9fans] gs

["LiteStar numnums" <litestar@gmail.com>]

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You can scratch RoPS of that list: anything that it does do, it not only
does it slowly, but improperly. To make matters worse, 'paid' version is no
better.
I had a discussion with Manfred von Thun (you know, the gentleman who
created Joy) about this while I was working on a language that was similar
to postscript & joy. He was interested in the design aspects we were
discussing, but was hesitant about the PS aspects I was using. I should
think that the real reason that PostScript is so slow is that the graphics
rely upon someone who should have really optimised some the workings out of
their source file...
Just my $0.02 (or 0.01 GBP)

On 10/3/06, Jack Johnson <knapjack@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/3/06, Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net> wrote:
> > out of idle interest, why has there never been a replacement?
> > is it really that hard?
>
> That's a great question.  I Googled for some leads:
>
> "Saffron includes an all-Java PostScript(r) interpreter"
> http://www.dynalivery.com/customersupport/Saffron_FAQs/SaffronInfo.html
>
> "The RoPS interpreter is a Microsoft Windows implementation of the
> PostScript programming language interpreter"
> http://www.rops.org/
>
> There is some interesting detail stuff here that I'd want to re-read
> if I were going to write an interpreter from scratch:
> http://www.anastigmatix.net/postscript/direct.html
>
> This might also make for a good jumping-off point:
> http://serl.cs.colorado.edu/~arcadia/Software/tps.html
>
> ...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
>



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