On 13.08.14 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort ([email protected]) wrote: > On 13/08/14 13:02, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
Dear Emilio, > >> After today’s testing update (context 2014.05.21.20140528-1 and > >> texlive-binaries 2014.20140528.34243-2), I see a massive slowdown in > >> xetex processing of ConTeXt docs: one document (ca. 400 pages) I am > >> working on has increased its processing time by a factor of 300+ (from > >> something like 3 sec per run before the update to around 17 minutes > >> now). For this document, the xetex process uses 100% of a cpu core for > >> nearly an hour to complete the typesetting. > >> > > It turned out to be a bug in the harfbuzz library, which is used by > > xetex. Upstream is aware of the problem and provided a patch for it. > > After applying the patch the processing speed remains constant. > > > > Ahmed: please be so kind apply the patch upon next upload. > > What patch? > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=180;filename=hb-xetex.patch;att=1;bug=750785 Hilmar -- sigmentation fault
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