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In article <9340@sol.ARPA>, ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) writes:

[Ken Jenkins]
[ on shoving data into the code as arguments for operators I
write ,"yeah let's do it!" ] 

[Ken Yap]
> 
> I disagree. Do you propose I shove this bitmap screen dump of mine
> into the code instead of using readhexstring? Have a look at any recent
> raster to PS converter.  It would probably slow the thing down by
> tripling the code size. There are reasons why bitmap dumps are slow but
> inlining the data doesn't help.

I quite agree on your bitmap data. But I believe the original poster
was talking about data points to be used in the building of a graph
of some sort. For data of this type I still maintain embedding it as
arguments to operators is the quickest way to go.

> And yes, it makes sense for the data to go at the end of a PS file.
> Bit reminiscent of card jobs, no? :-)

Ah yes, the good ol' days.

> 	Ken


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