[OS X TeX] What kind of operation is TeXing? (concerning hardware)

[Claus Gerhardt]

Below is the time my G5 at 2.5GHz needed; free memory at that run 2GB.

6.390u 0.700s 0:07.19

Claus


On Feb 3, 2005, at 21:39, Gerben Wierda wrote:

> On 3 Feb 2005, at 17:40, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am thinking about to buy a Mac Mini (1.42 MHz).
>>
>> Reading some reviews I noticed that a lack of this machine are 
>> disk-intensive
>> operations – for the hard drive seems to be relatively slow.
>
> It is something I am going to investigate, but even excluding the 
> slowing screen updates in scrolling text TeX on Mac OS X seems a lot 
> slower than on other platforms.
>
> http://www.nslog.org/latex.html has a table. Even with an adapted 
> command (disabling Terminal output which wins you 10 seconds or so on 
> this run):
>
> time pdflatex source2e.tex >/dev/null
>
> real    0m17.377s
> user    0m16.100s
> sys     0m0.580s
>
> This 1.2GHz G4 is slow. A 1.4Ghz Pentium III, 1 GB RAM mit Debian 
> Linux 3.0 clocks in at 7seconds or so.
>
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