Re: [Texmacs-dev] [TeXmacs] Literate Programming Preview

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 08:08:40AM +0100, Sam Liddicott wrote:
> Currently the macros are very slow on long documents, and each
> keystroke can take seconds to process on documents of 100 pages.

For fast typesetting, your macros should be relatively simple and
mainly 'with' and/or 'surround' a 'document' body.
Currently, only large 'document' tags are accelerated in Typeset/Bridge.

Notice also that, even though the production of line boxes is accelerated,
the vertical superposition of all line boxes may take some time for
large documents (rather tenths of seconds though for 100 pages),
especially if you also do page breaking. Nevertheless, this part
is accelerated in the case of structured documents (e.g. 10 chunks
of code of 10 pages each).

Best, --Joris