On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 15:33, Yue Wang wrote:
I see, no font is defined when dumping the formats... pretty unlike plain TeX... then why so much time is used for iwona, while only 1.2 sec is used to load lm roman?
I have a bit of a problem to test all that since running fc-cache only takes two seconds. A run with iwona takes 2.1 seconds (2.4 when some math equations are added) and a run with LM takes 1.1 seconds. The timings refer to subsequent runs, not to the first run. Maybe I should try to experiment on Windows. I have no idea when XeTeX forces reload of fc-cache, but I suspect that any other application does the same if font database becomes outdated. I didn't notice subsequent runs of fc-cache though. Once fc-cache is through, it doesn't run for a while. Mojca