<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Exactly the same input, but with metapost 0.993:<br></div><div><br></div><div>Here is how much of MetaPost's memory you used:<br> 31228 strings out of 31228<br> 193502 string characters out of 2223648<br> 1488239 words of memory out of 3000000<br> 674 symbolic tokens out of 9500<br> 9i,67n,17p,196b stack positions out of 300i,300n,1500p,200000b<br> 11 string compactions (moved 1652327 characters, 268148 strings)<br>19 output files written: base111.1220 .. base111.1239<br><br></div><div>And on mpost 1.208:<br></div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Here is how much of MetaPost's memory you used:<br> 17757 strings out of 21427<br> 13840 string characters out of 89433<br> 1491323 words of memory out of 3000000<br> 681 symbolic tokens out of 16384<br> 9i,71n,17p,197b,4f stack positions out of 300i,84n,10000p,200b,15f<br> 532 string compactions (moved 6412359 characters, 3954253 strings)<br>20 output files written: base111.1220 .. base111.1239<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So, on a more recent version, the same input seems to use a lot less strings.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Denis<br></div></div></body></html>