Jan-Åke Larsson wrote:
In practice it is _much_ faster. You'll find that the main bottlenecks are 1) writing the image to disk, e.g., on NFS and 2) output of diagnostic messages.
...if you are using a slow terminal (like gnome-terminal or so)...
The -q option you use below is very helpful with the latter, writing images to a local disk with the former. On my laptop, small images take on the average 2 ms to generate, if you do a many-page DVI (=one image for each page).
/JÅ