I usually compose short documents (paper, homework, report etc.) which usually runs 8-10 pages. There will be considerable difference between traditional TeX (CJK for LaTeX, or pdftex MKII using subfonts) and MKIV. That means, every MKIV Chinese document I compile will spend 10 seconds loading the fonts and extra 5 seconds for compiling the actual document.
For longer documents (more than 100 pages), I seldom compile them all. ConTeXt user usually split the book into components. I compiled each component (usually 10 pages) until I am satisfy in all components, then I will compile the whole book. So, efficient on small document is very important. On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yue Wang wrote: > >> (Of course, 15.854s runtime is still a bit too long, but that's tolerable) > > you should not take a one page document as benchmark, since then there's > always the dominant overhead of loading fonts and writing resources to > the pdf file > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com > | 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 / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
