From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/31233 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \sometxt bodyfontsize in staticMPfigure (2006.09.27 beta) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 09:22:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <451B78FE.2030808@wxs.nl> <4524BBF6.2030606@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160054568 1562 80.91.229.2 (5 Oct 2006 13:22:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:22:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Oct 05 15:22:45 2006 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 ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GVTBF-0001hv-6r for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:22:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F8311FE8A; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 15:22:28 +0200 (CEST) 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 24685-04-6; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 15:22:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB8AD1FE76; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 15:22:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6C4D1FE76 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 15:22:15 +0200 (CEST) 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 24685-04-5 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 15:22:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from skycaptain.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.93.160]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 1FEE81FE67 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 15:22:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: FROM aditya.annarb01.mi.comcast.net (c-68-40-50-205.hsd1.mi.comcast.net [68.40.50.205]) BY skycaptain.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 452506FB.A95D.7216 ; 5 Oct 2006 09:22:04 -0400 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <4524BBF6.2030606@wxs.nl> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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:31233 Archived-At: 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