Fwd: Re: update / new features

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Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Re: update / new features
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 18:40:55 +0200
From: Hans Hagen <[email protected]>
To: Jim Diamond <[email protected]>

On 7/29/2026 6:26 PM, Jim Diamond wrote:

> I did?  How careless of me.
> I should have studied this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nks7C8JzyeA

Oh, still online!

> My poor old laptop (Ryzen 4700U, but not quite as old as yours) took
>     context test-mp.tex  6.67s user 0.15s system 99% cpu 6.852 total
> 
>> (5.866 metapost) ..
> 
> Pray tell: where/what are you reading for that number?  When I
>          grep -i metapost the-log-file.log
> I only find
>          mkxl run stats  > metapost: 0.014 seconds, loading: 0.030, execution: 0.005, n: 3, average: 0.016, instances: 1, luacalls: 16452 (file: 15976, text: 0, script: 456, log: 20), memory: 0.000 M
> 
> If you spent 5.866 in metapost, it seems extremely unlikely I finished up
> in 14 millis.

i bet you had a second run .. was cache set to true?

> Aside from that, you will be pleased to know that it shows up well (*) in
> all of xpdf, evince and my venerable Acroread 9.5.5.

oh, even the old acrobat!

> I saw a SGI machine on sale a number of years ago, at a price I could have
> afforded without crimping the budget substantially.  But I resisted the
> temptation.  Which saved me some time today, because otherwise I would have
> had to check your bet.

even worse, make luametatex compile on it,

Hans

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