[NTG-context] Re: mtx-synctex.lua question

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

On 12/8/2023 7:51 PM, Jim wrote:

> Hi Hans (and anyone else interested in synctex),
> 282a284,285
>>                      locate( 0, s) if fi ~= 0 then tl = s ; goto done end
>>                      locate( 0,-s) if fi ~= 0 then tl = s ; goto done end
> 
> and then wrote the following quick and dirty shell script to create log
> files for comparison:

ok

> Admittedly, with the other two directions added in, a more extensive test
> (a total of a bit under 14 minutes CPU time on a Ryzen 4700U) showed the
> new version is about 0.5% slower, so there is a very minor downside.  (I'd
> happily spend the extra matches for the minuscule amount of CPU time, but
> others may not.)
the .5% precen tis no big deal, also because this script is not that 
time critical (the code could be made a bit faster anyway) so i'll add 
the few lines

so those 14 minutes, was that N times a file or 1 time a huge file?

Hans

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