From: Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] eqn
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 09:12:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <389f5a69-e103-7ec3-9b95-3e6e294a86e6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ba947af-00c7-53ee-046a-3b6306e5d1f0@andrewnesbit.org>
One slightly OT fact about TeX. On my 16GB, Core i7, SATA SSD
Lenovo T430s laptop running Fedora 30, it takes ~3 seconds to run TeX on
the ~900 page TeXBook. That's pretty fast. TeX contains all kinds of
code to make it fit in the constraints of a 1980s computer. I wonder
whether a redesign for a 2020 computer would be faster or slower.
I suspect, but can't prove, that classic [nt]roff might also
benefit in the same way. groff was written latter, so it might
suffer less.
Jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-04 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-04 4:20 Larry McVoy
2019-10-04 4:35 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-04 5:12 ` George Michaelson
2019-10-04 13:43 ` Nemo
2019-10-04 14:57 ` aksr
2019-10-04 15:52 ` U'll Be King of the Stars
2019-10-04 16:12 ` Jon Forrest [this message]
2019-10-04 17:24 ` Adam Thornton
2019-10-04 18:55 ` Kurt H Maier
2019-10-04 17:43 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-10-06 8:03 ` arnold
2019-10-04 19:02 ` Larry McVoy
2019-10-07 17:26 ` Seth J. Morabito
2019-10-07 19:14 ` Adam Thornton
2019-10-08 21:11 ` Seth Morabito
2019-10-04 19:25 ` Fabio Scotoni
2019-10-05 1:59 Doug McIlroy
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