Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.text Subject: Re: Speedup idea for troff/nroff Message-ID: <5489@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Wed, 7-Jan-87 11:32:42 EST Article-I.D.: brl-smok.5489 Posted: Wed Jan 7 11:32:42 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Jan-87 23:04:36 EST References: <387@ivax.doc.ic.ac.uk> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Distribution: comp Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 9 Xref: mnetor comp.unix.wizards:522 comp.text:154 In article <387@ivax.doc.ic.ac.uk> lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Lee McLoughlin) writes: >... Would it be possible to use the unexec routine to create a >preloaded version by running troff to read in the macro package >then unexecing itself out? ... This is essentially the approach used by "old troff" in AT&T releases, under the name "compacted macros" (just the pre-compiled macro data is saved, not the whole process). New troff dropped this (probably because BWK never had it in his version).