[texhax] Throughput

[Michael Doob]

On Thursday 03 March 2011 9:46 am, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
> \loop
>      \ifnum \count 0 < 34001
>          \topglue 0 pt
>          \eject
>      \repeat
>      \end

If I use

\loop
     \ifnum \count 0 < 34001
         \leavevmode
         \vfill
         \eject
     \repeat
     \end
\bye

then I get


mdoob at math-desktops:~$ time tex test.tex | more
This is TeX, Version 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
(./test.tex [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
...
[33996] [33997] [33998] [33999] [34000] )
Output written on test.dvi (34000 pages, 2743032 bytes).
Transcript written on test.log.

real    0m0.647s
user    0m0.450s
sys     0m0.100s

Not much overhead there.

Cheers,
Michael


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