On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:21:37PM -0400, Steve Izma wrote:
> Subject: Re: [Groff] groff performance in respect to hardware platform
>
>> ... But I'm wondering if anyone can tell me if groff benefits
>> from running on multiple CPU cores and multiple CPUs.
>> I assume that another way of asking th
On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 23:21:37 -0400
Steve Izma wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone can tell me if groff benefits from running on
> multiple CPU cores and multiple CPUs.
Looking at spawn-pipe.c, the only parallelization you get in groff is
the pipeline of preprocessing, formatting, and rendering.
Steve Izma wrote:
|On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 08:25:50PM -0400, Larry Kollar wrote:
|> Subject: Re: [Groff] groff performance in respect to hardware platform
|>> I'm wondering how CPU configurations affect groff processing
|>> speed.
|I guess I need to re-state the question. I'm quite familiar
On 2016-03-24 Steve Izma wrote:
> I guess I need to re-state the question. I'm quite familiar with
> groff's speed, including with 1000-page (or larger) complex
> books. But I'm wondering if anyone can tell me if groff benefits
> from running on multiple CPU cores and multiple CPUs.
I don't think
Hi Steve,
> I suppose another factor is that since the Linux kernel is built for
> parallelization, even if groff can only run on a single core, all the
> operating system services can run on other cores without interfering
> with groff's process. Or do I not know what I'm talking about here?
As
