[texhax] Throughput
Michael Doob
mdoob at ccu.umanitoba.ca
Thu Mar 3 16:55:51 CET 2011
On Thursday 03 March 2011 9:46 am, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
> \loop
> \ifnum \count 0 < 34001
> \topglue 0 pt
> \eject
> \repeat
> \end
If I use
\loop
\ifnum \count 0 < 34001
\leavevmode
\vfill
\eject
\repeat
\end
\bye
then I get
mdoob at math-desktops:~$ time tex test.tex | more
This is TeX, Version 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
(./test.tex [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
...
[33996] [33997] [33998] [33999] [34000] )
Output written on test.dvi (34000 pages, 2743032 bytes).
Transcript written on test.log.
real 0m0.647s
user 0m0.450s
sys 0m0.100s
Not much overhead there.
Cheers,
Michael
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