[NTG-context] Re: Caching Metafun images and VIM Syntax highlighted code

[Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>]

On 1/24/2024 5:50 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2024, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote:
> 
>> Perhaps Aditya Mahajan can tell me how can I cache code snippets. Invoking
>> VIM will have heavy penalty on highlighting the code otherwise.
> 
> Have you tried the vim module:
> 
> https://github.com/adityam/filter/blob/dev/vim-README.md
> 
> Caching is enabled out of the box, so you don't need to configure anything.
> 
>> Other than that, how can I cache Metafun images so that they are not
>> recomputed on every processing of file.
> 
> There used to a command for caching metafun images in MkII, but I don't know if that is really needed in LMTX. In most cases, metapost processing does not have a significant processing delay.
if images are the same one can use the reuseMPgraphic or uniqueMPgraphic 
features .. plenty of examples can be found, but as Aditya poined out mp 
is quite fast (but reuse saves on file size)

Hans

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