Re: [Groff] groff performance in respect to hardware platform

[Damian McGuckin]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2016, Steve Izma wrote:

> I'm wondering how CPU configurations affect groff processing
> speed.

Groff consumes very little time, even when it is used to format a 200 page 
documents with tables, graphs, pictures, and so on. 30 years on a Motorola 
68000, I sat and waited a minute or so for it to do big documents. Not any 
more.

> I'm also interested in bitmap editing (gimp) and batch processing
> of bitmaps using convert (imagemagick) or python, but groff is my
> main concern. Any advice?

Your bitmap processing is likely to be the a bigger consumer of CPU
time.

Without details of what you are doing in Python, I cannot comment.

Regards - Damian

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