On 12/20/2023 6:19 PM, Henrik Mannerström wrote:
This thread turned into a debate over what is slow, what packages you should
use and how old computers you can use. I’m re-posting my original question:
How hard would it be to make a luatex compatible precompiled format? One that
basically serialises the whole luatex state to a file and could re-use
it? Would it speed up the compilation of short documents? Is there any plans or
projects related to this?
Did you time how long loading these packagestakes? Things like fonts
always need to be loaded (and a 8 bit font is way smaller than a 32 bit
wide font with features). You could try to use latex/luatex with 8 bit
fonts.
Hans
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