Re: rulethickness in columns

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Wolfgang Schuster
<schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Am 02.03.2009 um 11:41 schrieb Hans Hagen:
>
>>> I would set offset parameters for all four margins before rule values
>>> but will us Hans ever grant this wish, it's been on the list from a lot
>>> of us for years.
>>
>> indeed, but only because it has a speed penalty; maybe some day in mkiv
>> only
>
> Test file with 10.000 simple frames.
>
> Unmodified \framed:
>
> Output written on rul-test-5.pdf (1250 pages, 730030 bytes).
> Transcript written on rul-test-5.log.
> TeXExec | runtime: 10.023787
>
> Modified \framed:
>
> Output written on rul-test-5.pdf (1250 pages, 730030 bytes).
> Transcript written on rul-test-5.log.
> TeXExec | runtime: 10.524815
>
> If you won't change the MkII version I can live with this but what speaks
> against a modification of the MkIV version. Don't say performance, MkIV is
> in many parts slower than MkII (e.g. buffers) but people who use don't care
> about this.

And here are the times for MkIV.

Original core-rul:
mkiv lua stats : runtime                   - 20.242 seconds, 1250
processed pages, 1250 shipped pages, 61.753 pages/second

Modified core-rul:
mkiv lua stats : runtime                   - 22.108 seconds, 1250
processed pages, 1250 shipped pages, 56.541 pages/second

Wolfgang
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