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From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry)
Cc: juri@jurta.org, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: automatic anchors for definition commands.
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 12:24:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200401081724.i08HOCd08186@f7.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1AeaN7-00078R-Ms@fencepost.gnu.org>

    This would mean a tremendous increase in the number of names defined
    for cross-referencing.  That could cause a slowdown in TeX, or even
    cause TeX to run out of memory.  

A test with 2000 randomly-generated @anchors (the Elisp manual has about
1800 @def... cmds) ran fine, both for speed and space.

However, 5000 anchors overflows the string space in last year's TeX Live
distribution.  (This year's has bigger maximums, as do a few other
distributions I tried.)  None of the other various TeX capacities are a
problem, and speed isn't a problem either.

I think I could play with texinfo.tex and eliminate perhaps 1/3 of the
string space in common cases (by getting rid of empty -snt xrdef
values), if we want to pursue it.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-08 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-07  2:50 automatic anchors for definition commands Luc Teirlinck
2004-01-07  6:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-07 21:34 ` Karl Berry
2004-01-08  0:01   ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-01-08  0:20     ` Karl Berry
2004-01-08  0:32       ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-01-08 13:38       ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-08 17:24         ` Karl Berry [this message]
2004-01-09 11:46           ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-10  5:23         ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-01-11 19:37           ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-08 14:14     ` Eli Zaretskii

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