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Re: [groff] Unintended impact of strip.sed on om.tmac-u?
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Larry Kollar |
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Re: [groff] Unintended impact of strip.sed on om.tmac-u? |
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Mon, 13 Nov 2017 21:42:25 -0500 |
> Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> * The body of a 'while' request is treated like the body of a
> 'de' request: 'gtroff' temporarily stores it in a macro that
> is deleted after the loop has been exited. It can
> considerably slow down a macro if the body of the 'while'
> request (within the macro) is large. Each time the macro is
> executed, the 'while' body is parsed and stored again as a
> temporary macro.
How much effort would it take to store the temporary macro until
processing is finished? Memory vs. speed trade-offs, I suppose.
Larry