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From: tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: PasTeX performance on 68000 Amiga
Message-ID: <18790011@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 9 May 91 16:09:01 GMT
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barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes:

>	How many seconds per page (or pages per second?) does PasTeX 1.2
>run?  At school, I'm used to a speed of 1-3 pages per second.

From memory:  running the .tex documents provided with PasTeX and Michael
Doob's "A Gentle Introduction to Tex" (about 100 pages) through virtex
took between 1 and 2 seconds per page.  The resulting .dvi file took
_much_ longer to print on my LaserJet IIP.  I assume most of the printing
time is time to transfer about a megabyte across the parallel interface
(but at that, it seems kinda long...)    The previewer, I suspect because
it deals with much lower resolution fonts and doesn't have to use an i/o
port, is considerably faster per page of output.