[pdftex] re:bug in protcode.tex

[Hans Hagen]

At 11:06 AM 2/9/2002 +0800, Guy Worthington wrote:
>If I'm going to carp about protcode.tex, I'd like to write an
>addendum to my bug report yesterday:
>
>protcode.tex is spinning its wheels, doing 500+ comparisons, when

Did you try to time that 500+ comparisons on a 1 gig machine? I bet that 
you cannot even blink an eye in the meantime -)

Optimizing only makes sense when you keep on setting fonts, but then, 
protcodes are kind of persistent, so it does not make sense to set them 
again and again for one and the same font.

>only a handful of characters are going to be adjusted.  Perhaps
>there's a more appropriate looping technique.

sure -)

Hans
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