[OS X TeX] First iteration of performance results

Justin C. Walker justin at mac.com
Thu Aug 25 20:08:42 EDT 2005


A more complete report:

On Aug 25, 2005, at 13:26 , Gerben Wierda wrote:

> Results: http://tug.org/texshowcase/perf.html
>
> There is quite a bit of consistency, but there are also some  
> anomalies. Jean-Christophe's systems are measured to be almost  
> impossibly fast compared to others, for instance. Twice as fast as  
> other systems of the same type. That cannot be right.
>
> If you all like this experiment, I would like to add a second round.
>

2x2.7GHz G5, 2.5GB Memory, Mac OS X 10.4.2; tex-perf results:
    12.10 real         8.66 user         2.75 sys

And, after reading the directions :-}

pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3)
kpathsea version 3.5.3

Regards,

Justin

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