On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Pavel Sanda <[email protected]> wrote:

> Michael Joyner wrote:
> > Old LyX, -e pdf2: ~ 53 seconds, multiple runs, timed using /usr/bin/time
> -p
> > New LyX, -e pdf2:  ~ 78 seconds, multiple runs, timed using /usr/bin/time
> -p
> >
> > If I export to pdflatex, then run pdflatex, these are the associated
> > pdflatex timings:
> >
> > Old pdflatex: ~ 13 seconds, multiple runs, timed using /usr/bin/time -p
> > New pdflatex: ~ 8 seconds, multiple runs, timed using /usr/bin/time -p
>
> looking again on the numbers, when rescaling pdflatex part we get
> 13*6 =78
> 8 *6 =48
> which is very near to the 78/53 fraction. so the issue has most
> probably only little to do with lyx speed itself. either pdflatex
> goes more slowly or .tex file produced is more complicated.
> (pdflatex is not part of lyx...)
>

Incorrect.
Here are the export timings (3 each in a row) to create the *.tex files:

Old LyX, -e pdflatex: 29.56, 29.60, 30.21
New LyX, -e pdflatex: 61.22, 62.56, 59.28

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