Hi *!
Inspired by the article "SMP and SAMBA" I'd like to put a suggestion on
a ghostscript enhancement for smp systems (sorry, but unfortunately I
have no "good" idea on that subject...)
I experienced a while ago, that my laserjet4 compatible printer is quite
slow in comparison with windows drivers. I think the raw data
compression within ghostscript is not that good as it should be. But
that's not what I want to discuss here.
I thought of splitting a large postscript-document into several parts
and let each cpu calculate its part. The most efficient way of doing
this could be, cpu 1 calculates the first page, cpu 2 begins the
calculation of the second page, when cpu 1 is ready and the page got
printed, it starts calculating the 3rd page, and so on.
The problem I see here is, that ghostscript should become smp aware. Or
are there other solutions for this proposal, perhaps some kind of perl
scripts that can handle concurrent /dev/lp?-writes???
Please pardon my bad english, I hope you understood what I meant?!
tia,
Frank
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"After 49.7 days of continuous operation, your Windows 95-based
computer may stop responding (hang)."
(see support.microsoft.com)
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