Re: \sometxt bodyfontsize in staticMPfigure (2006.09.27 beta)

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>
>>> 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

It is not just mp. It was a combination of mp ... textext ... metaobj 
... conversion to pdf. Doing some tests right now, I see that the main 
culprit was btex ... etex. Replacing all btex ... etex with \sometxt 
makes things really fast (~15 sec for 8 graphics). I just thought that 
metaobj was to blame but it is not. Maybe, I can get around without 
statics :-)

Aditya