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From: opus@athena.mit.edu (Mr. P. Opus)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Goswell's Postscript Interpreter
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Date: 11 May 89 09:07:35 GMT
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A note to all those people wondering about a PostScript interpreter
for X11: There exists one, written by Crispin Goswell.  We have a
version of this interpreter here at athena, and have spent MANY hours
optimizing it.  It is currently approximately 20-200 times faster than
the version 1.4 with patches that is in general release.  We are
trying to iron out the last of the nasty bugs, and will post the
results soon (pending approval of Mr. Goswell).

This program was optimized by trained professionals using the proper
profiling equipment.  Please do not attempt this in your own home if
you value your sanity.

-David Jedlinsky
opus@athena.mit.edu
Project Athena ``Watchmaker''