X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1900" "Fri" "7" "January" "1994" "14:26:12" "+0100" "Rainer Schoepf" "schoepf@SC" "<199401071327.AA26085@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de>" "45" "Re: What size TeX?" "^Date:" nil nil "1" "1994010713:26:12" "What size TeX?" (number " " mark " Rainer Schoepf Jan 7 45/1900 " thread-indent "\"Re: What size TeX?\"\n") "<199401071049.AA20541@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de>"]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/24.6.93) id AA07268; Fri, 7 Jan 94 14:27:14 +0100 Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0-sc/03.06.93) id AA17730; Fri, 7 Jan 94 14:27:12 +0100 Received: from tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de with SMTP id AA26085 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4(mail.m4[1.12]) for <@MAIL.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE:Schoepf@SC.ZIB-BERLIN.DE>); Fri, 7 Jan 1994 14:27:09 +0100 Message-Id: <199401071327.AA26085@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de> Received: from TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE by tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 0608; Fri, 07 Jan 94 14:27:24 +0200 Received: from VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (NJE origin MAILER@DHDURZ1) by TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 0606; Fri, 7 Jan 1994 14:27:24 +0200 Received: from VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (NJE origin LISTSERV@DHDURZ1) by VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 1672; Fri, 7 Jan 1994 14:26:21 +0000 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Organization: Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Berlin In-Reply-To: <199401071049.AA20541@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 14:26:12 +0100 From: Rainer Schoepf Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: What size TeX? Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1256 Dean Ayres writes: > On 22nd December 1993, Bernd Raichle > wrote to the list suggesting that a section be added to the LaTeX2e > installation which gives minimum recommended values for TeX's size > parameters. > > Is there any chance that this will be available in the near future? We haven't overlooked this aspect, but we thought it important to give you, the users, something to test now. > I'm currently struggling to find the correct values of the hash parameters > for PasTeX for the Commodore Amiga, and OzTeX on the Mac. I think PasTeX > has the hash size set at compile time, so its not that easy to change. > I need a definitive answer on the sizes before asking the author to make the > necessary changes. Two years ago, while discussing the memory requirements for AMS-LaTeX, Frank and I came up with the following suggestions: 4000 control sequences, 2000 stack size, 150 fonts, 4000 strings, and 60000 pool size. I would call these "reasonable values" rather than "minimum recommended values". > The new LaTeX2e distribution seems very powerful, but eats memory and runs > more slowly. The price of progress, I suppose. The timings I have seem to indicate that the compatibility mode invoked by \documentstyle increases the running time by about 50%, compared to using \documentclass. I think that most of this is due to the need to keep all the math fonts ready and to change them with every size change. Also, compatibility mode uses about 30 fonts more. There is a problem with eating up the parameter stack which is being fixed as I write this. We are also investigating how to reduce main memory usage. Rainer Schoepf Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Berlin Heilbronner Strasse 10 D-10711 Berlin Federal Republic of Germany or