From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/5084 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: problem with texexec and inline metapost Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 09:36:56 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20010716093507.02ef4280@server-1> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010714182604.00aa4170@public.uni-hamburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035395698 31104 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:54:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:54:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eckhart =?iso-8859-1?Q?Guth=F6hrlein?= , ConTeXt mailing list Original-To: Eckhart =?iso-8859-1?Q?Guth=F6hrlein?= In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010714182604.00aa4170@public.uni-hamburg.de> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:5084 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:5084 At 06:27 PM 7/14/2001 +0200, Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote: >At 12:57 14.07.2001 +0200, you wrote: >>Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote: >> > >> > But what about having texexec/perl calculate the checksums, writing >> them to >> > an auxiliary file, and tex just reading them? And in any case, one can be >> > sure that the mp code will not change during the same call to texexec (or >> > can there be exceptions?), so that if, say, three tex runs are necessary, >> > one run of mp would be sufficient. Setting some switch may be >> sufficient to >> > achieve this. >> >>It *can* change with a texexec, imagine using the page number in the MP >>code, for example. More serious problem: even if texexec calculates the >>checksum, then how would the TeX macro code know its status without >>first >>calculating a checksum itself? It needs to compare two checksums: one >>from >>this run against the one from the previous run. > >So, why not keeping two checksums in the aux file? No, no, all right, I >admit that I did not think beyond my simple applications. Metapost is >actually quite fast, so I must agree with yoz that the additional gain of >speed (maybe even not...) is probably not worth the trouble. And it is >likely that there will be more problems than positive effects and than I >can imagine... So let's forget about it, it was just an idea, coming up >because my - until recently - preferred method texexec --automprun does >not work as expected at the moment (see the other thread). much faster processing can be achieved with mp as dll and kpsea as server app [only have file base in mem once], which is something fptex wizard fabrice popineau is thinking/working about/on. Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------