Am 20.06.25 um 17:22 schrieb Hans Hagen:
> On 6/20/2025 4:06 PM, John Was wrote:
>> Dear Wolfgang
>>
>> Both of these process very quickly - 2 seconds for each separately,
>> and less than that if I put the Baskerville definition plus simple
>> text after the default Comp. Modern text.
>
> on a bit recent machine (say 5 years old) a simple few page run with
> lation modern should run way below a second and unless you do complex
> stuff performance should be some 30-40 pages per second .. if not, there
> is an issue with your installation

E.g. if TEXINPUT is set to a big tree, TeX will look through that for
every file. (I had TEXINPUT.lualatex set for a LaTeX project and it
increased processing time with that engine by minutes.)

Hraban
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