Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> writes: >> I'd say that for a 80-100page document it's maybe somewhere between >> 50% and twice as slow. Still it's a several seconds build that >> becomes more several seconds. I'm not sure it crosses important >> workflow thresholds [1], it certainly didn't in my own use. > > The problem is the startup time of luatex. For processing our more > than 1000 small snippets that are embedded in the final documentation > (as PDF files), this sums up.
Why would the snippets cause multiple startups of luatex? -- David Kastrup
