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
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