[OS X TeX] Mulicores?

[Murray Eisenberg]

Not so fast at all — minutes for me — when I’m pdflatexmk’ing a 600+page book with table of contents, nomenclature, bibliography, and index where it takes something like 5 or 6 latex runs among the executions of makeindex and biber to get all references resolved.

> On 6 Jul2022, at 7:05 PM, George Gratzer via MacOSX-TeX <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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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