[XeTeX] [texhax] Throughput
William Adams
will.adams at frycomm.com
Thu Mar 3 17:11:53 CET 2011
On Mar 3, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
> How about saving each such graphic in a \box, and then just using \copy to place it wherever needed? I'd expect that to give a pretty big win, if the same graphics are used many times.
Excellent point.
The last time I was looking at this, xetex had to query the file to get measurement information, even when re-using, which has a lot of overhead, esp. if the file is on a server.
I wondered actually, if it would be possible to replace a graphic during the run and have the new graphic used....
Interestingly, the elapsed time seems about right given my report of a similar project on the xetex mailing list:
On Nov 14, 2007, at 2:18 AM, I wrote:
> ... the
> typesetting end went perfectly. Best of all, since XeTeX includes a
> graphic only once, referring to it w/ subsequent uses, the file sizes
> were quite manageable (We guesstimated a couple of terabytes otherwise).
>
> 1,581 records. It did take about an hour and a half to typeset the
> cards proper on my 2.5GHz G5 though (3,162 pages, each of which had a
> multi-megabyte graphic and every other one had a bitmap signature
> graphic).
William
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