21 Sep
2005
21 Sep
'05
11:26 a.m.
Hans Hagen wrote:
so what happens if you remove the optimizations (forget about 100% compatibility)
Probably (hopefully) nothing except some bloat in the data structure, but I won't take bets on that.
It is also near-impossible to fix while maintaining compatibility, which is probably why no-one has seriously attempted to clean up the code, up-til-now.
but we don't care much about that part of compatibility, do we?
Nah. (but it was a big issue for etex, nts, and pdftex-in-dvi mode) Taco