<div dir="ltr">Correction. The 11,000 pages per minute (est.) was with pdfTeX. With plain vanilla TeX (MikTeX 2.8), it took only about 30 sec. for all 15000 pages, so better than 30000 pages/minute to produce a dvi.<div>
<br></div><div>-pd<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Peter Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pfd@pfdstudio.com">pfd@pfdstudio.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">Ok, I tried using Victor Eijkhout's repeat macro, which allowed me to use multiple paragraphs in the loop argument. With this, each iteration of my "Lorem ipsum" text generated about 5 1/2 pages. So 10,000 iterations gave me a 15661 page PDF, and took about 80 sec. on my machine. That's better then 11000 composed pages a minute, so that's a good result. Here's the gist of it ..<div>
<br></div><div><div>\input{repeat.tex}</div><div>\repeat \to{10000} \do{</div><div>Lorem ipsum dolor ... }</div><div><br></div><div>\bye</div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div>Thank you all!</div><div><br>
</div><div>-pd</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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