[gs-devel] 'null' output device?

[Ralph Giles]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 04:37:49PM +0200, Jeroen Janssen wrote:

> I'm going to run some tests that will result in lots of (bitmap)
> output if I save it it to disk, so
> I was wondering which device can be used to measure the 'raw'
> performance of ghostscript rendering without saving the output to disk
> (a 'null' output device?).

I usually use -sDEVICE=ppmraw -sOutputFile=/dev/null for such things. 
Everything is rasterized, but the results are discarded and the disk
overhead is avoided.
 
But this won't work on windows, only unix-like operating systems.

 -r