Hi pdfTeX fans, this is just to announce, that there is another spare time patch for pdfTeX on my home page, which copes with the slow-down of the program, if files with a lot of links are to be processed. I have built in AVL trees for quicker finding of items in the linked object list. Yes, this is the 3rd patch of the AVL-Trilogy :-) It's actually a minor issue, very low amount of changes in the web code. To give you an impression about the speed gain, here are some test run results: with Patch Original -------------------------------------------- 1000 links 44 pages 2.14s 2.61s 2000 links 87 pages 3.42s 4.72s 5000 links 218 pages 7.3s 18s 10000 links 435 pages 14s 63s 20000 links 870 pages 30s 208s 50000 links 2174 pages 80s 1590s You see that the patch is only perceptible/interesting, if .tex files are heavily linked. But this can quite easily happen, if the document is automatically produced, e. g. from some database, and if it contains lots of commodity links. Anyway... The patch (AVL-Patch 3) is on my homepage. I would be glad to know, if anybody has thought about something similar or has tried out the patch. Have fun! Greetings Hartmut ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hartmut Henkel, Oftersheim, Germany http://www.circuitwizard.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------