From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/39508 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: mplib Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:21:01 +0100 Message-ID: <47DAB3FD.2050503@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205517199 31945 80.91.229.12 (14 Mar 2008 17:53:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:53:19 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Mar 14 18:53:47 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JaE6B-0004kn-6t for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:53:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA2721FBC6; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:53:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 06788-02-6; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:52:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 319BF1FBB5; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:25:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 007651FB14 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:25:35 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03162-02 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:25:05 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F8FA1FBF1 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:21:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 5506 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:21:29 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:39508 Archived-At: Hi, as some of you may know, there is an mplib project .. last week taco and spent quite some time on exploring the integration in luatex (and therefore mkiv) experiments with loadiing the format, processing graphics and conversion to pdf show a throughput of less than 0.001 seconds per graphic; a usual we did much timing and although experimental, the code is already pretty okay, just to give an idea: mkiv lua stats : metapost processing time - 6.834 seconds (loading: 0.014 seconds, execution: 1.474 seconds, n: 15000) indeed, that's 15K graphics in 7 seconds. so, the next couple of months i'll start providing an adapted mp handling mechanisms. among the possible options are - extensions based on pre/postscripts (instead of specials) - multiple mp engines (\startuseMPgraphic[metafun]{name} and such) so, if you have specific wishes ... now is the time to let them know Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________