[OS X TeX] Mulicores?

[George Gratzer]

Seriously, how long TeX-ing takes?

BTW, how can I clock how long TeX-ing takes. Too fast to use a stopwatch.

> On Jul 5, 2022, at 3:09 PM, Luís Sequeira <lfsequeira at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> pdflatex is a single threaded program and I believe that other tex engines, xelatex and lualatex, are too.
> The processing of a latex file is pretty much sequential anyway, so it is hard to see how multithreading might help in this case. If someone has a different understanding of this, I would like to learn about it.
> 
>> Dear TeXers,
>> 
>> pdf(la)tex is using only one core on my Intel-Mac.  Is there a version which uses more cores?
> 
> Mike
> 
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