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<div class="" style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space">Thanks, Luis, you found the problem.  I use the TeXShop editor very naively, so the suggestion by Michal Hoppe was for me too much technical jargon, and I couldn’t see why my book project,
 which certainly didn’t explicitly use his suggested input, worked when this didn’t.  Luis jogged my memory and I realized that I use the prelude
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<div class="">Murray, I don’t use a Mac Studio—I have no idea what that even is.  I use my MacBook Pro with TexShop and no fancy gadgets that I am aware of.  </div>
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<div class="">Everyone, thanks for your suggestions.  The <i class="" style="font-weight:bold">
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<p class="" style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 40.8px; text-indent:-40.8px"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="4" color="#000000" class="" style="font:14.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color:#000000">From: Michael Hoppe <<a href="mailto:mh@michael-hoppe.de" class="">mh@michael-hoppe.de</a>></font></p>
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<p class="" style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 56.9px; text-indent:-56.9px"><font face="Helvetica Neue" size="4" color="#000000" class="" style="font:14.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color:#000000">Subject: benchmark LaTeX on Mac Studio?</font></p>
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<div class=""><span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>(1) Which particular Mac Studio are you using — one with the M1 Max chip or one with the M1 Ultra chip, and in either case the base model or a custom configuration?</div>
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<div class=""><span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>I would send the document in the form of a zip archive consisting of a main directory that contains the root .tex file along with subdirectories holding all the files needed — aside
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<div class=""><span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>The whole process, including unzipping the archive and running the pdflatexmk engine to completion of its 5 or 5 passes should take no more than 8 minutes.</div>
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<div class=""><span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>The reason I’m asking is that, on my 2019 iMac, a single pass of latex now takes around a minute, and a complete run of pdflatexmk now takes around 5 minutes. As I’m still writing and
 editing but need to see the complete current state of the document, that is just wasting too much time!</div>
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