2007/12/10, Taco Hoekwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
> >> I don't know, but in this case, I don't want to embed fonts, I don't know
> >> how LuaTeX can do that
> >
> >   LuaTeX knows how to not embed fonts if you ask it not to, but I'm not
> > sure how this is handled on the ConTeXt level.
> >
> >>                        but it runs really slow on my ancient PC, especially
> >> on the first time when it's generating font cache.
> >
> >   That's true, it needs a lot of memory (so most of the time is spent
> > swapping, I guess).  As I've found out, Mark IV is slightly faster on a
> > 450 MHz Sparc processor with 1GB memory than on a 2GHz Intel Dual Core
> > with 512MB memory ;-)
>
> This is especially true if you use large fonts like the AdobeMingStd.
> It should slowly be getting better over time, Hans and I hope. We try
> to optimize for memory use as well as directly for speed, because
> less memory is often faster also. However, premature size optimizations
> tend to cause problems later on, and therefore progress is slow.

Slow is no word for the speed with CJK, I have a document with Adobe
Kozuka Minchi and Gothic and run takes up to 3 to 4 minutes.

The same document needs with XeTeX about half a minute and using the
same fonts in plain TeX took only a few seconds.

This is really something LuaTeX need to be faster, but it is always faster
than using the cwTeX in truetype format with pdfTeX ;-)

Wolfgang
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