[OS X TeX] Speed of TeX on OSX

[Jonathan Kew]

On 7 Jun 2004, at 1:52 am, Will Robertson wrote:

>
> On 7 Jun 2004, at 6:19 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
>> Does anyone have an explanation for this difference in speed?
>>
>
> If you're viewing PDF files in Mac OS X (ie using TeXShop or iTeXMac) 
> and DVI files (using xdvi or equivalent) in Linux, there's your 
> difference.
>

Another possible factor (even supposing he's running pdfTeX on Linux): 
could it be that the two disk drives have significantly different 
performance?

Jonathan

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