> Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
>
> * The body of a 'while' request is treated like the body of a
> 'de' request: 'gtroff' temporarily stores it in a macro that
> is deleted after the loop has been exited. It can
> considerably slow down a macro if the body of the 'while'
> request (within the macro) is large. Each time the macro is
> executed, the 'while' body is parsed and stored again as a
> temporary macro.
How much effort would it take to store the temporary macro until
processing is finished? Memory vs. speed trade-offs, I suppose.
Larry
