[OS X TeX] Mulicores?

[George Gratzer]

Murray,

Still, how do you time it?

I have just finished a 44 page long book. To typeset it takes about 4-5 secs. Hundreds of illustrations, 2 tocs, index.

With pdflatexmk, after deleting all the aux files, less than 15 secs. I use makeindex.

I trult believe that you reeky messed up something.

My computer is fast, Apple Studio with an M1 Max chip, I do not believe that this makes much difference.

GG

> On Jul 6, 2022, at 7:10 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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