On Mar 4, 2005, at 12:20 PM, Adam Lindsay wrote:
Matthias Weber said this at Fri, 4 Mar 2005 12:13:50 -0500:
Old version:
ConTeXt ver: 2004.11.23 fmt: 2004.12.16 TeXExec 5.2.3
total run time : 324 seconds
New version:
ConTeXt ver: 2005.03.02 fmt: 2005.3.4 total run time : 416 seconds
And I was hoping for a speed increase by a factor of 4 :( (I renamed the TeX source for both runs)
Of course I am completely ignorant about the internals, but at least I didn't expect that it would run slower.
Were both runs from the same point--were they "virgin" runs? Did you precede the texexec command with a "texutil --purgeall" command, for example? --
My TeX source file is a single file with images. Most of the TeX-work is done for positioning floats I think (figures, tables) and for creating backgrounds. So I just renamed the TeX file for both runs into new file names, and upated TeX for the second run. I can redo the experiment on a clone machine which hasn't been updated yet, but I don't know whether "texutil --purgeall" will change anything. But if you tell me that it will, I'll give it a try. Matthias