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
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