[pdftex] TeX as a composition server?

[Peter Davis]

Thank you!  This is what I had in mind, though I'll use plain TeX to
maximize the throughput.

Thanks!

-pd

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Ross Moore <ross.moore at mq.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> Why write it into a long file?
> You can do the loop in TeX itself.
>
>
> \loop
>  ... Blah blah ...
>  \newpage
> \ifnum\value{page}<10000 \repeat
>
>
> I'm assuming LaTeX here, for \newpage and \value .
> This is probably more practical than a Plain TeX test, which would be even
> faster, after declaring a counter for use within the loop.
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
>      Ross
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 26/10/2010, at 5:56 AM, James Quirk <jjq at galcit.caltech.edu> wrote:
>
> > Peter,
> >
> >> Basically, yes.  I just want to see how fast TeX can compose a few tens
> of
> >> thousands of pages of text.  It could all be "Lorem ipsum ..." or
> whatever.
> >
> > A few lines of Perl, Python, Ruby, or whatever, is all you need.
> > For instance:
> >
> > #------------------start--------------------------------
> > my $n = 100000;
> > my $lorem = <<'TXT';
> > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit,
> > sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
> > Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris
> > nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor
> > in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat
> > nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident,
> > sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
> >
> > TXT
> >
> > open LTX,">","lorem.tex";
> > print LTX <<'HEAD';
> > \documentclass{article}
> > \begin{document}
> > HEAD
> > for($i=0;$i<$n;$i++) {
> >   print LTX $lorem;
> > }
> > print LTX <<'TAIL';
> > \end{document}
> > TAIL
> > #------------------end--------------------------------
> >
> > generates a document of 13044 pages.
> >
> > James
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> -pd
> >>
>
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