Pander wrote:
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
[snip]
Just a cautionary note. The top line (real) can be quite variable, due
to disk caching. Notice that the user and sys times don't add to the
real time.
$ 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
And here they do (almost).
I offer this explanation. The files that luatex needs were in cache but
not those needed by tex. Run tex a few times and the real time will
come down to 0.080 or so I think. Whereas luatex will always be about
0.210.
--
Jonathan
