The only change I made was that I started using a 9pt modern font than a 10 pt modern font.
My document decreased from 580+ pages to 500 pages after that. About your document, I assume you had a lot of Graphics because text only 180MB is too high. I have only few diagrams and my file size is only 3MB. On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 2:13 AM Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 2/17/2024 6:17 PM, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote: > > Thanks for new upload. I see that memory consumption is much less than > > previous version. So > > once again, thanks a lot. > > > > I am curious about what has changed in recent upload, that memory > > consumption is about 60% of earlier versions. > it's hard to tell what exact consumpiton is becaue for instance when lua > creates tables, they grow by factors two when then have to (maybe 5.5 is > a bit less consuming) > > on the one hand luametatex is more efficient than luatex due to all kind > of ímprovements' but some nodes are larger so that takes more memory, > which is only noticed when one has lots of text on a page (or keeps > boxes stuff around) > > anyway, not that much changed since the previous upload, so maybe you > just stay below a threshold > > I recently generated a 180MB document with 2500 fonts + metapost > outlines of them and that could bump mem usage (with empty cache) to 30 > GB (less after fonts were cached) but normally we stay around 125 MB for > a document. Anyway, tex mem consumption can often be neglected compared > to other applications. > > Hans > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl > webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) > archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context > wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > -- Respect, Shiv Shankar Dayal
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