Re: Functional PostScript 1.0

["Jin S. Choi" <jsc@atype.com>]

>>>>> "Henry" == Henry Baker <hbaker@netcom.com> writes:

    Henry> Since Postscript level 2 has garbage collection, it should
    Henry> be quite reasonable to move _most_ of the computation into
    Henry> the printer!

One reason this might not be desirable is that you are then tying up a
possibly shared resource with computation that would probably be done
faster on your own machine.

I bet my Pentium Pro and Scheme48 would beat out my HP Laserjet in ray
tracing those metallic spheres, although it might be a close race :-)