[OS X TeX] timing

Berend Hasselman bhh at xs4all.nl
Mon Nov 23 15:20:03 EST 2009


On 23-11-2009, at 21:14, George Gratzer wrote:

> I have an iMac with i7 processor arriving tomorrow, so I thought it would be a good idea to record typesetting time with my 3 1/2 year old MacPro running two 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeons.
> 
> I do not know how to time typesetting in TeXshop, so I LaTex in the terminal my lattice book of 479 pages with hundreds of illustrations.
> 
> Here is the timing:
> 
> LaTeX GLT3.tex
> 
> in the Terminal gives:
> 
> real	0m2.527s
> user	0m2.446s
> sys	0m0.077s
> 
> Awesome. You think it will be faster with the new computer?
> 

See here  http://www.macworld.com/article/143970/2009/11/core15_imac.html

Having a guess: user 2.1 seconds

Berend





More information about the MacOSX-TeX mailing list