Re: \sometxt bodyfontsize in staticMPfigure (2006.09.27 beta)

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>   
>> this is runtime tex into passed to the graphic ... imagine that we flush
>> this to the mp file ... it can contain info that is not known in that
>> session (like overlay info) which willbreak the mp run
>>
>> the issue here is that a static graphic is processed in another,
>> independent run, that's the whole idea behind static graphics (quick
>> hack for independent graphics)
>>
>> we can spend a lot of time to make it more advanced but within a year
>> from now we will have mp as a library in tex which willreduce runtime to
>> nearly zero (at least that 's what experiments show) so ....
>>     
>
> Even when mp is available as a lib, it will not reduce runtime to 
> nearly zero? The time to start a mp process will be negligible, but 
> processing an mp file will still take time. In the mp diagrams that I 
> have, processing each diagram takes about 10 sec [1]. Occasionally 
>   
you mean that mp needs 10 sec per graphic? impressive
> there are around 10-15 diagrams and compiling all of them takes about 
> 2 minutes. With statics, the time for calculating the md5 sum of each 
> mp file is negligible, and I can work with diagrams sources and text 
> in the same file. Even after mp is available as a library, I will need 
> statics

> .
>
> [1] metaobj is slow. I really hope that sometime in the future, 
> metapost gets programming abilities of a real language. Maybe 
> asymptote already does this, but it is too latex oriented.
>   

try to find funding for taco to do luapost -)

Hans

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