Hi all (or mainly the users of Unix-like systems)
after i've bought a new notebook and installed the recent Redhat Linux system i found that an updated ConTeXt runs very slow. First i thought that Hans had too much time and implemented a few thousand new features that need their time, but ...
... it is a queerer story. Here are the run times of an example document (many inline MP graphics, 18 pages, many terminal messages !!) on different terminal programs for X-Windows:
gnome-terminal: 2 min 18 sec konsole (KDE-terminal): 1 min 30 sec xterm: 1 min 5 sec directly on the console (no X-Windows): 58 sec
Normally i use the first. Hmm... ;-(
Don't ask me for reasons, but if your ConTeXt is too slow, ask yourself if you run it on the right terminal -)
Jens