On Fri, 19 Jan 2024, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:
> On 1/19/2024 12:34 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Jan 2024, Hans Hagen wrote:
> >
> >> Of course we'll never be as fast as (pure) plain tex (no layers added) or
> >> latex (which often is advocated as faster than context).
> >
> > I was curious, so did a quick experiment: typeset \input knuth 500 times.
> > Here are the results:
> >
> > pdflatex: 547 pages/sec
> > lualatex: 308 pages/sec
>
> opentype or type 1 ?
type 1. I did not change anything in the defaults. I'll try to figure out how
to load opentype fonts in latex, and test lualatex.
> > MKIV: 130 pages/sec
> > LMTX: 147 pages/sec
>
> that is weird as lmtx is always faster here (we loose some 15% on the backend
> compared to luatex, maybe even more, but we gain back quite a bit elsewhere
> for various reasons)
LMTX is faster for me as well.
> > Interestingly, pdflatex, lualatex, and MkIV all generated pdf with 1112
> > pages, while LMTX generated a pdf with 1250 pages. Both MkIV and LMTX take
> > the same time to run (8.5 sec) but LMTX generates more pages so it is
> > faster.
>
> puzzling
>
> > Of course, this is a meaningless experiment from a practical point of view
> > as a 1000 page document will be more complex than just text.
> % engine=pdftex 1.2
> % engine=luatmetatex 1.6
> % engine=luatex 1.8
> % engine=xetex 2.4
>
> \starttext
>
> \dorecurse{500} {
> \input knuth \par
> }
>
> \stoptext
>
> 125 pages, so how does your test file look
5000 recursions (not 500, sorry about that).
\starttext
\dorecurse{5000}{\ReadFile{knuth}}
\stoptext
I'll send you the PDFs offlist.
Aditya
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