[OS X TeX] Poor performance on a MacBookPro

[Hervé CHOPLIN]

Here is the latex running (TeXLive 2007) on an eMAC 1Ghz PowerPC G4  
256 Mo RAM MacOSX 10.4.10


This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
  %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./testla.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax,  
dumylang, noh
yphenation, arabic, basque, bulgarian, coptic, welsh, czech, slovak,  
german, ng
erman, danish, esperanto, spanish, catalan, galician, estonian,  
farsi, finnish,
  french, greek, monogreek, ancientgreek, croatian, hungarian,  
interlingua, ibyc
us, indonesian, icelandic, italian, latin, mongolian, dutch, norsk,  
polish, por
tuguese, pinyin, romanian, russian, slovenian, uppersorbian, serbian,  
swedish,
turkish, ukenglish, ukrainian, loaded.
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (./ 
testla.aux)
[1] (./testla.aux) )
Output written on testla.dvi (1 page, 240 bytes).
Transcript written on testla.log.

real    0m0.602s
user    0m0.490s
sys     0m0.086s



Hervé CHOPLIN
Université François Rabelais - UFR Sciences et Techniques
Parc Grandmont 37200 TOURS France
Tél: +33 247367343
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Le 3 sept. 07 à 11:50, Dave Murray-Rust a écrit :

>
> On 3 Sep 2007, at 10:28, Axel E. Retif wrote:
>> MacTeX installs a Preference Pane, to shift from one TeX  
>> distribution to another, so you don't have to move Fink's teTeX  
>> out of your path and export your new (TeXLive) path manually.
>
> Ah, that's good to know. Seems to be fighting with fink, though - / 
> sw/bin is in my path before /usr/texbin, but I can sort that out.
>>
>> Here are my times in a MacBook Pro 2.2:
>> real    0m0.158s
>> user    0m0.126s
>> sys     0m0.028s
>
> That's more what I was expecting!
>
> Cheers,
> dave
>
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