On 18-3-2011 3:54, mathew wrote:
On Mar 14, 2011, at 16:49, Marco wrote:
I totally agree. But Cecil mentioned in another thread: »My document is mostly
text.« Even if a few mp graphics are involved luatex is still noticeably
slower.
I look at it from the perspective that the last time I used TeX, my 8MHz Atari
ST took several seconds to process each page. And then it took several seconds
per page for the previewer to show me the DVI. And I couldn't do anything else
on the machine while it was working.
My way of working now is that I keep a short scratchpad document in TeXworks,
and use it to sort out my formatting and macros, taking advantage of the live
preview. When I'm done, I copy the definitions into my actual working document,
which I edit in vim. I only typeset the entire working document once or twice
an hour, if that; vim catches syntax errors. So if LuaTex takes a few seconds
longer to do the typesetting, it's completely unimportant.
it's no problem to get a 250 pages per second throughput in mkiv but as
soon as you add more interesting things to a page work needs to be done
and that takes runtime
on the average i get some 10-15 pages per second for documents of normal
complexity on my (by now) 5 year old laptop that i use for development
which is quite ok (mk.pdf: 10 pps, hybrid.pdf: 11 pps, cld-mkiv: 15 pps)
Hans
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