[pdftex] TeX as a composition server?

[Peter Davis]

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.

-pd

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Peter Davis <pfd at pfdstudio.com> wrote:

> 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 ..
>
> \input{repeat.tex}
> \repeat \to{10000} \do{
> Lorem ipsum dolor ... }
>
> \bye
>
>
>
> Thank you all!
>
> -pd
>
>
>
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