On 2010-11-19 21:57, Jonathan Fine wrote: > For what it is worth: > > $ time tex '\end' > This is TeX, Version 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2009) > No pages of output. > Transcript written on texput.log. > > real 0m0.083s > user 0m0.068s > sys 0m0.008s > > $ time xetex '\end' > This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (TeX Live 2009) > entering extended mode > No pages of output. > Transcript written on texput.log. > > real 0m0.337s > user 0m0.232s > sys 0m0.104s > > $ time luatex '\end' > This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.40.6-2009100509 (TeX Live 2009) > No pages of output. > Transcript written on texput.log. > > real 0m2.554s > user 0m2.428s > sys 0m0.124s > > > 2.6 GHz AMD 64 bit running without any power saving. > >
Today's version: $ time tex '\end' This is TeX, Version 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2010) No pages of output. Transcript written on texput.log. real 0m0.149s user 0m0.050s sys 0m0.030s $ time xetex '\end' This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9997.4 (TeX Live 2010) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode No pages of output. Transcript written on texput.log. real 0m0.555s user 0m0.130s sys 0m0.280s $ time luatex '\end' This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.64.0-2010111216 restricted \write18 enabled. No pages of output. Transcript written on texput.log. real 0m0.222s user 0m0.180s sys 0m0.030s
