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Speculative document evaluation

Published: 28 August 2007 Publication History

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Optimisation of real world Variable Data printing (VDP) documents is a difficult problem because the interdependencies between layout functions may drastically reduce the number of invariant blocks that can be factored out for pre-rasterisation.
This paper examines how speculative evaluation at an early stage in a document-preparation pipeline, provides a generic and effective method of optimising VDP documents that contain such interdependencies.
Speculative evaluation will be at its most effective in speeding up print runs if sets of layout invariances can either be discovered automatically, or designed into the document at an early stage. In either case the expertise of the layout designer needs to be supplemented by expertise in exploiting potential invariances and also in predicting the effects of speculative evaluation on the caches used at various stages in the print production pipeline.

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DocEng '07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Document engineering
August 2007
236 pages
ISBN:9781595937766
DOI:10.1145/1284420
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Published: 28 August 2007

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  1. PPML
  2. SVG
  3. VDP
  4. document layout
  5. optimisation
  6. speculative evaluation

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DocEng07: ACM Symposium on Document Engineering
August 28 - 31, 2007
Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

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