X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1277" "Wed" "12" "August" "1998" "21:49:41" "+0200" "Martin Schroeder" "ms@DREAM.KN-BREMEN.DE" nil "25" "Re: Modules" "^Date:" nil nil "8" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA17779; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 22:06:10 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <14.DF13C4A3@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 22:06:08 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 395501 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 22:06:03 +0200 Received: from deceased.kn-bremen.de (root@deceased.hb.north.de [194.94.232.249]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA21211 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 22:04:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from dream.kn-bremen.de by deceased.kn-bremen.de with uucp (Smail3.2.0.100) id m0z6h5O-002g9yC; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 22:01:30 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by dream.kn-bremen.de (1.65/waf) via UUCP; Wed, 12 Aug 98 21:49:41 -2 for latex-l@relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de References: <199806271853.UAA29351@frank.zdv.uni-mainz.de> X-Mailer: Helldiver 1.08 (Waffle 1.65) Lines: 25 Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Organization: The Dreaming Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 21:49:41 +0200 From: Martin Schroeder Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: Modules Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2672 In <199806271853.UAA29351@frank.zdv.uni-mainz.de> Frank Mittelbach writes: >b) will be drastic: a current LaTeX format (without any packages >loaded) uses about 51088 words of memory before begin document; if the >average word length in commands is 10 (which is far too low with a >consequent implemented module concept) then this gets basically blown >to 500000 which is twice the amount of main mem that i have available >on this machine for everything. i just looked: when we compiled the >Companion the log file showed 208957 words of memory out of 262141 >try to imagine to what size this would grow. I just looked: emTeX has an hTeX version where main memory can be configured to be between 2097152 (2^21) and 4194304 (2^22). And I don't think there's a limit in TeX to make it even bigger if needed. :-) But I agree that this should be avoided -- but not a taboo. Best regards Martin -- Martin Schr"oder, MS@Dream.KN-Bremen.DE It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. (Giordano Bruno)