[OS X TeX] Benchmarks on various machines

[George Gratzer]

I bet, on a MacPro, it would be about 6 secs.

GG

On Oct 4, 2006, at 8:08 PM, Geoff Vallis wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Below, for those interested, are some benchmarks for typesetting a  
> 750 page book on various Macs. The book is technical, with lots of  
> equations and figures. The figures exist in both EPS form, for  
> latex, and PDF form, for PDFlatex. The times given are elapse time  
> in seconds, rounded to integers, so smaller is better. Typesetting  
> is done from the terminal.
>
> The G4 is a Powerbook, at 1.4 Mhz. The G5 is a dual processor  
> tower, at 2.5 Ghz. The Macbook is dual processor, core duo, at  
> 2.GHz. The Imac is dual processor, core 2 duo, at 2.16 Ghz. The  
> laptops have 1GB ram, the desktops 2GB. The 'no-log' column refers  
> to the case when terminal output was suppressed, by redirecting it  
> to /dev/null. This made a big difference on the single processor  
> machine, but a small difference on the other machines. At the  
> bottom is the actual output from some of cases, using the 'time'  
> command. The first figure in each column (e.g. 8.876u) is the CPU  
> time, and the third figure is the elapse time.
>
> If anyone wants to see the actual book, which is a graduate-level  
> fluid mechanics book using the lucida family of fonts for both text  
> and mathematics, go to:
>   http://www.princeton.edu/~gkv/aofd
>
> Finally, let me thank everyone on the list for help over the years.  
> This made the writing of the book, or at least figuring out how to  
> typeset it nicely, much easier. I'm afraid I've been a sponge and  
> not a spigot of information!
>
> Regards
> Geoff Vallis
>
> P.S. I only subscribe to the digest, so if anyone has any comments  
> or questions please cc me.
>
>
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> --------
>
>             Latex  Latex (no log)  PDFLatex  PDFLatex (no log)
>
> G4 single     36      21             56        34	
>
> G5 dual       10      9              17        16
>
> Intel Imac    7       6              13        13
>
> Macbook       10      8              18        16
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 
> ----------
>
>                       CPU           Elapse
> G5 latex:            8.876u 0.360s 0:09.38 98.4%    0+0k 0+3io 0pf+0w
>
> G5 pdflatex:        14.952u 1.101s 0:16.65 96.3%    0+0k 0+26io 0pf+0w
>
> G4 latex:           18.096u 0.780s 0:36.39 51.8%    0+0k 0+143io 0pf 
> +0w
>           (no log)  17.456u 0.643s 0:20.84 86.8%    0+0k 0+128io 0pf 
> +0w
>
> G4 pdflatex:        28.676u 2.075s 0:56.48 54.4%    0+0k 0+33io 0pf+0w
>           (no log)  28.295u 1.881s 0:33.91 88.9%    0+0k 2+34io 0pf+0w
>
> Imac latex:          6.233u 0.174s 0:06.68 95.8%    0+0k 0+18io 0pf+0w
>
> Imac pdflatex:      12.323u 0.674s 0:13.38 97.0%    0+0k 0+19io 0pf+0w
>
>
> Macbook latex:       9.754u 0.236s 0:10.05 99.3%    0+0k 0+12io 0pf+0w
> Macbook pdflatex:   17.606u 0.791s 0:18.50 99.4%    0+0k 0+12io 0pf+0w
>
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