On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Taco Hoekwater <t...@elvenkind.com> wrote:
> Hans Hagen wrote:
>>
>> > Taco Hoekwater wrote:
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>>> Hans Hagen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> anyway .. i cannot comment on runtimes as xetex on my windows box runs
>>>> too slow (caching issue) and all examples are slow, no matter how i
>>>> specify fonts so i will not look into the code till that gets fixed
>>>> first
>>>
>>> The example with the typescript seems logical to me: a typescript does
>>> much work beforehand, so I assume SimSum is loaded multiple times.
>>>
>>> I am trying the AdobeSong example as we speak, there surely seems
>>> something wrong there.
>>
>> let's start with saying that I have no intention to optimize mkii for
>> xetex as we decided some time ago (at the context meeting) that we would
>
> For educational purposes: whether you have
>
> \definefont[a][file:AdobeSongLight-Std]
> or
> \definefont[a][file:AdobeSongLight-Std.otf]
>
> makes no difference to context at all.
>
> The first makes \a expand into (simplified)
>
> \font\internala="[AdobeSongLight-Std]" at 12pt\internala
>
> the second into
>
> \font\internala="[AdobeSongLight-Std.otf]" at 12pt\internala
>
> but there are no other macro expansion changes at all. You can test
> this yourself by making two alternative files an adding \loggingall
> to them, then compare the two logs using diff.
>
> As to the reason why one of the two is much slower than the other:
> I do not know for sure, but I suspect that XeTeX does not cache
> the (some of) the internals results of font file assignments with
> explicit extensions. The speed difference is most certainly *not*
> caused by anything the context macros do.
>
disagreed: you can test by yourself that
\font\a="[simsun]"
\starttext
\dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\a 你好}\par}
\stoptext
runtime: TeXExec | runtime: 2.922
\font\a="[simsun.ttf]"
\starttext
\dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\a 你好}\par}
\stoptext
runtime: TeXExec | runtime: 2.938
> Best wishes,
> Taco
>
> PS As to why \definefont is itself slower than \font: it does not
> actually define a font \a at a specific size. Instead it defines a
> macro \a that defines and then selects a font with an internal,
> temporary name, using the local font size etc.
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