[OS X TeX] Textures vs. TeXShop typesetting speed
Donu Arapura
dvb at math.purdue.edu
Sun Apr 4 10:47:02 EDT 2004
Charles Bouldin wrote:
> I've wanted to raise the issue of typesetting speed on the list for
> some time, but since I can't provide hard numbers (I no longer have
> Textures installed) I have hesitated to so. Perhaps you, or someone
> else can provide numbers on this. My perception is that we now have a
> set of terrific tools to edit Tex, manage documents, and easily access
> a standard install of the typesetting engine, but that typesetting
> speed is quite slow compared with other TeX environments.
Actually, I have noticed this also, and I have been puzzled
by it. I really like TeX under macosx, but I believe that it could
be faster. Perhaps someone on this list has some ideas?
I don't have Textures, but I do have tetex running on other *nix
machines, so I can provide numbers for that. Since there is
huge variation caused by differences in hardware, the fairest
comparison is perhaps between my 2 Macs.
"scheme" is a 1.25 Ghz G4 powerbook with 1 GB ram, running macos
10.3.3
"topos" is a 450 Ghz G4 desktop with 448 ram, running yellowdog linux
3.01
"cohomology" is a 2.2Ghz Xeon with 1GB ram running redhat linux
(enterprise...)
For most things ,the powerbook is a close second, leaving the other
Mac far behind. However, for tex it is the slowest.
Below are speeds for latexing a 200 page document from
the command line, and for compiling a recent xdvi (which I added to
back up my first statement ).
----------
scheme$ time latex book.tex
...
real 0m9.185s
user 0m6.130s
sys 0m0.220s
scheme$ time make (xdvi)
...
real 1m39.348s
user 1m10.200s
sys 0m18.120s
---------------------------------------
topos$ time latex book.tex
....
real 0m8.818s
user 0m8.500s
sys 0m0.090s
topos$ time make (xdvi)
...
real 3m0.066s
user 2m41.390s
sys 0m12.090s
------------------------------
cohomology$ time latex book.tex
...
real 0m3.071s
user 0m2.670s
sys 0m0.050s
cohomology$ time make (xdvi)
...
real 0m52.372s
user 0m37.430s
sys 0m3.540s
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- Donu
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