Re: psroff generates huge files

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From: James Clark
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 11:43

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In article <3381@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:

   The psroff optimizer (introduced at psroff 2.0, PL5 I believe) will
   coalesce words into single "show"'s.  You will see a size improvement
   of at least three, and a print performance increase around a factor of
   10.  Resulting in performance similar to groff and pscat/psdit(Transcript)

I did a little test to compare the sizes of output generated by psroff
and groff.  Here are the sizes of the PostScript output generated for
the perl man page:

psroff R3 PL10           562627
  (optimization on)
groff 1.05               305141
groff 1.05               280310
  (no pairwise kerning)  

One difference is that groff can output multiple words in a single
`show'.

James Clark
jjc@jclark.com

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