[OS X TeX] Please test this: (Modified by Gerben Wierda)

[Gerben Wierda]

On Aug 24, 2005, at 10:01, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 23 août 05 à 23:37, Bruno Voisin a écrit :
>
>> Tomorrow morning at work I'll check on my 400MHz G4 PowerMac 10.4.2.
>
> Adding this test to the previously posted ones:
>
> 2.7GHz Dual G5 10.4.2            12.62 real    9.00 user    3.14 sys   
> 12.14 tot+sys   (Christian)
> 2.5Ghz G5 10.4.2                 12.78 real    9.26 user    3.23 sys   
> 12.49 tot+sys
> 2.0GHz Dual G5 PowerMac 10.4.2   17.03 real   13.08 user    3.88 sys   
> 16.96 tot+sys   (Ralph)
> 1.25GHz Dual G4 FW800 10.4.2     22.05 real   16.48 user    4.89 sys   
> 21.37 tot+sys   (Bernhard)
> 800MHz G4 iBook 10.3.9           23.92 real   15.29 user    6.67 sys   
> 21.96 tot+sys   (Alexander)
> 1.5Ghz G4 PowerBook 10.4.2       27.58 real   18.57 user    4.90 sys   
> 23.47 tot+sys   (Ralph)
> 1.2GHz G4 iBook 10.4.2           26.32 real   19.06 user    5.81 sys   
> 24.87 tot+sys
> 1.0GHz G4 PowerBook 10.4.2       37.69 real   26.24 user    5.07 sys   
> 31.31 tot+sys   (Bruno)
> 500MHz G4 Cube 10.3.9 Server     39.66 real   23.82 user    7.69 sys   
> 31.51 tot+sys
> 1 GHz Powerbook 10.4.2           38.96 real   28.08 user    7.14 sys   
> 35.22 tot+sys   (John)
> 800MHz G4 eMac 10.4.2            46.30 real   27.45 user   11.02 sys   
> 38.47 tot+sys   (Norm)
> 400MHz G4 PowerMac 10.4.2        70.79 real   57.22 user    9.26 sys   
> 66.48 tot+sys   (Bruno)
>
> This so sloooooow machine is a 400MHz 384MB PowerMac from 2000 IIRC. 
> Was in 10.2.8, upgraded to 10.4.2 when I needed to use it as my 
> production machine for a couple of days last month. Thus I don't have 
> any 10.2 or 10.3 machine to test on, unfortunately.

A fast disk (Seagate with 8MB cache) and some memory will make this 
twice as fast if my G4 Cube is any example. Also, I get the feeling 
form these reports that 10.4.2 is slower than 10.3.9. Also, having a 
dual does not help run TeX itself faster. TeX runs on a single 
processor (single threaded).

The test is of course not very accurate. Most people have different 
hyphenation sets for instance. Also, compiling a format is different 
work that compiling a document.

>
> This for the current gwTeX i-Package, I haven't installed the new 
> experimental one yet. Anybody with a MacTel to test on? (Hoping that 
> reporting such result wouldn't violate NDA, of course.)

Such a report would violate NDA, I think.

But there is enough public knowledge about the system to make a good 
guess.

G

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