[OS X TeX] timing the new iMac

[George Gratzer]

I had an opportunity to run


time pdflatex LTFoundation.tex


in the Terminal on an 

iMac 2009, 2.9 GHz Core i7

and on the new, top of the line iMac

IMac 2010 2.93 Core i7 SSD

Results:

2009 iMac

real	0m3.627s
user	0m3.473s
sys	0m0.143s


with microtype

real	0m8.691s
user	0m8.522s
sys	0m0.158s

New iMac

real	0m3.459s
user	0m3.315s
sys	0m0.132s

with microtype

real	0m8.325s
user	0m8.011s
sys	0m0.137s

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But note the restart times:

Restart

iMac 2009

1:11.06

iMac 2010

0:20 Wow!

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Of course, the TeXShop timings are completely different:

2009 iMac TexShop

13.63

2010 iMac TexShop

 9.61

GG