Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Hans Hagen wrote:
Lars Huttar wrote:
Hello,
We've been using TeX to typeset a 1200-page book, and at that size, the
time it takes to run becomes a big issue (especially with multiple
passes... about 8 on average). It takes us anywhere from 80 minutes on
our fastest machine, to 9 hours on our slowest laptop.
often there are ways to optimize the document style
In Latex, there is a package called mylatex, which allows you to create
a format consisting of your preamble. Then you can call latex with your
own format and this speeds up things.
not on this document since the processing takes way more than the startup
in jelle's doc it's the many many many local font definitions and the
some 800 metapost graphics that are the culprit
- define fonts beforehand
- use unique mpgraphic when possible
i changes the definitions a bit and now get 5 pages per second on my
laptop in luatex; xetex processes the pages a bit faster but spends way
more time on the mp part
(of course 1450 pages of columnsets and multipage bTABLE's also cost a
bit of time)
This approach did not provide a significant speed improvement in latex
for me, and I don't know whether it will do so in context. Hans and
Taco, do you think that creating a personal format and possibly also
dumping some font related info could provide a tradeoff between
processing speed and disk space?
it depends, you might win maybe a second per run when on startup in
cases where you have thousands of small runs but often using a small
tree (like the minimals) pays of more
Hans
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