Bernd > On Wed, 12 August 1998 21:49:41 +0200, > Martin Schroeder <[log in to unmask]> writes: > > In <[log in to unmask]> Frank Mittelbach <[log in to unmask]> writes: > > >b) will be drastic: a current LaTeX format (without any packages > > >loaded) uses about 51088 words of memory before begin document; if the > > >average word length in commands is 10 (which is far too low with a > > >consequent implemented module concept) then this gets basically blown > > >to 500000 which is twice the amount of main mem > [...] > > Frank, either I misunderstand your ``word'' or you are wrong with this > analysis. i guess neither. :-) the problem is that Martin cited me out of context. I was replying to a suggestion to replace TeX's token based mechanism, ie \foobar being internally one token in main mem and a few bits of char mem, with a mechanism in which \foobar is 7 tokens --- only that we were discussing \foo/bar_bas_... eg even longer streams of tokens stored and processed each time. my claim back then is that TeX is tailored to be a token based program and that giving this up is undesirable for several reasons. frank