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Subject: Re: One man's experience with TeX vs troff: timings
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Date: Sun, 23-Sep-84 23:47:48 EDT
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From: Brian Reid 
When you are comparing speeds of text formatters it is important
(though difficult) to take into account the number of times that the
average user has to run his job in order to get it formatted correctly.
If it often comes out right the first or second time, it is less
important that the processing times are longer.

Could you send me a copy of the benchmark? I'd like to push it through
Scribe and see what its timings are. In similar tests in the past
Scribe has been slightly faster than TeX, but timings of course vary
widely depending on what you are doing.