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From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
	Stephen Gaito <stephen@perceptisys.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Parallelizing typesetting of large documents with lots of cross-references
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 13:21:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5f95564a-99e2-4a5e-2c5a-c5518272b857@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201203110434.03385f42@nn01>

On 12/3/2020 12:04 PM, Stephen Gaito wrote:

> - very large (1,000+ pages),

not that large, literate code is often verbatim so that doesn't take 
much runtime either

> - highly cross-referenced documents,

ok, that demands runs

> - with embedded literate-programmed code (which needs
>    concurrent compiling and execution),

you only need to process those snippets when something has changed and 
there are ways in context to deal with that (like \typesetbuffer and 
such which only processes when something changed between runs)

> - containing multiple MetaFun graphics,

those don't take time assuming effecitne metapost code
  Hans


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-03 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-03 11:04 Stephen Gaito
2020-12-03 11:32 ` Taco Hoekwater
2020-12-03 12:21 ` Hans Hagen [this message]

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