[metafont] Re: [metapost] TeX and MF: Fast-loading of core image

[Hans Hagen]

Laurence Finston wrote:

> What about TeX and MF?  Do you (or does anybody) happen to know what
> current distributions do?

normally macro packages are dumped (i.e. mem saved to disk with a bit of 
compression and byte shuffling)

Hans

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