On 03/23/2016 09:48 PM, Damian McGuckin wrote:
On Wed, 23 Mar 2016, Steve Izma wrote:
You DO know what you are talking about.
When I typeset large books, there are some stages, like adjusting
track kerning on a page, where I want to see immediate results on my
viewer.
Viewing is somethin
On 03/23/2016 09:21 PM, Steve Izma wrote:
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 08:25:50PM -0400, Larry Kollar wrote:
Subject: Re: [Groff] groff performance in respect to hardware platform
I guess I need to re-state the question. I'm quite familiar with
groff's speed, including with 1000-page (or larger
On Wed, 23 Mar 2016, Steve Izma wrote:
I assume that another way of asking this: "is groff
multithreaded?" I don't know enough about this kind of
programming to answer this by looking at the source code.
Not as far as I know.
I'm only considering this in a Linux environment (Debian stable, fa
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 08:25:50PM -0400, Larry Kollar wrote:
> Subject: Re: [Groff] groff performance in respect to hardware platform
>
> > I'm wondering how CPU configurations affect groff processing
> > speed.
>
> ... So any non-netbook, five years old or less, will perform
> pretty well with
> Steve Izma wrote:
>
> I'm wondering how CPU configurations affect groff processing
> speed.
On a 2007 MacBook Pro, groff would produce a 900-page manual with a few
graphics in 2-3 minutes. That was two groff runs to get cross-refs right,
including index generation, followed by a ps2pdf run.
