X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1137" "Fri" "10" "October" "1997" "15:10:53" "+0200" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "22" "Re: LaTeX journal and publisher macros" "^Date:" nil nil "10" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA05403; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:10:58 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <2.2BD4C7A1@listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:10:56 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 211917 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:10:50 +0200 Received: from mail.nada.kth.se (root@mail.nada.kth.se [130.237.222.92]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA06471 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:10:48 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [130.237.37.145] (sl45.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.65]) by mail.nada.kth.se (8.8.7/8.8.4) with ESMTP id PAA13631 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:10:46 +0200 (MET DST) X-Sender: su95-hab@mail.nada.kth.se References: Your message of "Wed, 08 Oct 1997 14:14:09 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:10:53 +0200 From: Hans Aberg Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: LaTeX journal and publisher macros Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2433 Robin Fairbairns : >> This is one aspect that I have in my mind: Computers are getting so fast >> that making a full compile every once in a while does not hurt. > >Every once in a while, maybe. Every time, definitely not. Computers >get faster, and so do discs. But discs get faster slower than >computers (as it were). I can assure you that I don't want to run my >600 files through latex because I've changed one 2-pager... I am not sure this is need to be a problem, because files are cache in RAM, and only written/read from disc when forced to by the OS (when some other program needs the space), or by a save to disc. So you can read all those 600 files into RAM, and then use them at full RAM speed. The real problem is TeX's outmoded file handling system: A file that is opened and closed is probably always written to disc. So if you have 600 aux file and it takes 10 ms on the average to write each, that is a whopping 6 seconds. :-) Hans Aberg * AMS member listing: * Email: Hans Aberg