Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!intercon!news From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Compiled PostScript Message-ID: <1673@intercon.com> Date: 3 Jan 90 16:02:53 GMT References: <1666@intercon.com> <17533@rpp386.cactus.org> Sender: news@intercon.com Reply-To: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Lines: 21 In article <17533@rpp386.cactus.org>, woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) writes: > > I doubt it would be of any practical use, since, at least on printers with > Come, come now, you just gave a perfect examply of a practical use for it. > (see the paragraph above) Recursion doesn't count :-). As several people have noted in email to me, there is a class of operation that could arguably benefit from compilation, namely, operations that are very compute-intensive, such as Gouraud & Phong shading, things that keep changing the CTM, and so on. I say arguably because I tend to do this kind of thing on the host and then ship the output to the printer. I admit it gets a little sticky when your host has less computing power than your printer (for example, Don and his Apple II and LW NTX), but that's more of a misfeature of your setup than of the printer itself... --Amanda --