[pdftex] Patch for better performance of map file reading

[Jens-Uwe Morawski]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:01:39 +0200
Hans Hagen <pragma at wxs.nl> wrote:

 
> >+      Return value:  true if tfm file is inserted,
> >+                     false if the name is already in the hashtable
> 
> i think that it should be possible to overload defaults, i.e. esp if you 
> use those 3000 entry files; user should be able to replace entries (in 
> additional files); so in my opinion later entries must overload previous ones

May be it would be better/faster if additional files (map
+somefile.map or \pdfmapfile{+somefile.map}) get higher priority than
the default map file. Then the first entry counts and pdftex can stop
searching. Thus it does not need to read always the whole file/list.

jm2c.

Regards,
  Jens