Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> 2007/12/10, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>
>>> 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 ;-)
>> it all depends on what's done with the font ...
>>
>> -- we can only locate a bottleneck when we have the font and a test file
>> -- when you're low on memory, the garbage collector of lua becomes a
>> problem
>> -- dynamic features are faster (less loading)
>>
>> 3-4 minutes ... we use mk.tex as test doc, and that one loads cjk as
>> well as zapfino and arab ... runtime on my machine is 15-20 sec,
>> depending on the console used an din bachmode we go under 15 seconds
>> (140 page document)
>>
>> so, what kind of machine do you run luatex on?
>>
>> Hans
>
> I run LuaTeX on a songle core pentium M with 1.7 GHz and 512 MB ram,
it helps to have a gig or more
> I made now a smell test file and the problem the speed with this file is not
> so bad, the compile time increases with every \switchtobodyfont in my
> document and not every of them can be replaced.
eventually you can share most instances and load only once (i.e.
normally only 4 fonts need to be loaded + some math)
Hans
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