[OS X TeX] Poor performance on a MacBookPro

[Morten Høgholm]

On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:30:33 +0200, Dave Murray-Rust wrote:

>  >which latex
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-darwin//latex
>  >file $( which latex )
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-darwin//latex: symbolic link to `pdftex'
>  >file pdftex
> pdftex: Mach-O executable i386

Okay so it's not a Rosetta thing although you should still let MacTeX  
handle the various distros.

Can you try running

latex -kpathsea-debug=-1 speed-macbook.tex % or whatever your test  
document is called

Then we can see what is actually going on.
-- 
Morten

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