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In article <17533@rpp386.cactus.org>, woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker)
writes:
> > I doubt it would be of any practical use, since, at least on printers with
> Come, come now, you just gave a perfect examply of a practical use for it.
> (see the paragraph above)

Recursion doesn't count :-).

As several people have noted in email to me, there is a class of operation
that could arguably benefit from compilation, namely, operations that are
very compute-intensive, such as Gouraud & Phong shading, things that keep
changing the CTM, and so on.

I say arguably because I tend to do this kind of thing on the host and then
ship the output to the printer.  I admit it gets a little sticky when your
host has less computing power than your printer (for example, Don and his
Apple II and LW NTX), but that's more of a misfeature of your setup than
of the printer itself...

--Amanda
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