Re: [NTG-context] Re: Using the free PS Fonts with ConTeXt

Don't know what is slow for your PC. I'm just looking into pdftex mapfile.c, and there is in line 142 a for-loop for checking duplicate mapfile entries (tfm). This runs some 3000*0.5*3000 times for parsing your mapfile lines, always checking for some strcmp() == 0. You can speed this up if you put a line "if (*(e->tfm_name) != *buf) continue;" into the begin of the for-loop (you need braces then!). Then the loop goes to the next map line already, if the 1st letters do not match. I have generated some 3000 random mapfile entries for testing (letters equally distributed). time pdftex on an almost empty TeX file "A \bye" tells: without patch real 0m1.463s user 0m1.370s sys 0m0.020s with patch checking inequality of 1st letters real 0m0.990s user 0m0.880s sys 0m0.030s So there might be some corner for improvement. Using strcmp() the reverse way seems not to speed up things; how to write a more sophisticated inequality-checker? Greetings Hartmut On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Patrick Gundlach wrote:

Hans Hagen writes:

Hello out there,

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Right. LaTeX does not use the run-time loading of mapfiles.

here i've split up the files (otherwise they become anoyingly large) (actually, this is why latex pdftex people have proposed to patch pdftex, because it's so slow on the large map files, something i never noticed since i use small ones -)

If I remember correctly there was a sub-optimal sorting algorithm used. With 3000+ lines in my mapfile this is getting very slow :( And even in tetex 2.0 this is (as I have heard) not fixed.

Patrick