On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 08:57:11PM +0000, 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
This is caused by texlive2009's luatex.ini (and lualatex.ini) loading all hyphenation patterns in the format which is discouraged when using luatex, texlive2010 fixed that. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer
