Re: [groff] Unintended impact of strip.sed on om.tmac-u?

[Larry Kollar]

> Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>    * The body of a 'while' request is treated like the body of a
>      'de' request: 'gtroff' temporarily stores it in a macro that
>      is deleted after the loop has been exited.  It can
>      considerably slow down a macro if the body of the 'while'
>      request (within the macro) is large.  Each time the macro is
>      executed, the 'while' body is parsed and stored again as a
>      temporary macro.

How much effort would it take to store the temporary macro until
processing is finished? Memory vs. speed trade-offs, I suppose.

        Larry