On Die, 2002-12-03 at 17:34, Jonathan Walther wrote:
If we ever start getting the content and daily hits that PlanetMath is getting, watch server performance drop into the toilet. tex itself is not fast to run. Stick 10 of these tex invocations in, and the page will take a long time to load.
Tomasz' texvc generates the images in a directory and re-uses them on demand (the TeX strings are hashed and stored in a table). I doubt it would be a performance hit at all, but if it would, texvc->latex->dvips->convert could easily be executed on a remote machine.
Regards,
Erik