[OS X TeX] Timing

[Herbert Schulz]

On Feb 22, 2006, at 11:29 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 22 févr. 06 à 17:34, George Gratzer a écrit :
>
>> Do you remember when Textures was in beta, and it took about a  
>> minute to typeset one page? Of course, the Macs then were very slow.
>
> No, I jumped into the TeX "business" later, in late 1991, with  
> Textures 1.2 (license #4093). I have the floppies and box set under  
> my eyes right now, together with the delightful December 1998  
> Textures User's Guide with specially commissioned illustrations by  
> Duane Bibby featuring a Mac computer instead of the generic  
> terminal in the illustrations from the TeXbook and LaTeX: A  
> Document Preparation System.
>
> Still, I remember at that time typesetting a plain TeX document of  
> about 40 pages on a Mac Classic, with Textures. Typesetting took  
> several minutes, and then when Textures was displaying the preview  
> afterwards I could see each line forming individually on the screen.
>
> Now, with the same document:
>
> legimc11:~/Desktop/Annexe brunovoisin$ time tex Confinement.tex
> This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.5)
> (./Confinement.tex [-1] [-2] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]  
> [10] [11]
> [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24]  
> [25] [26]
> [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39]  
> [40] [41]
> [42] )
> (see the transcript file for additional information)
> Output written on Confinement.dvi (44 pages, 169620 bytes).
> Transcript written on Confinement.log.
>
> real    0m0.954s
> user    0m0.340s
> sys     0m0.059s
>
> Oh well!
>
> Bruno

Howdy,

So what are you doing with the extra time? :-)

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)


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