Thanks for the tip. I find that
context --make
takes quite a long time whether or not I'm running the command prompt as an
administrator. But when I compile my experimental file as administrator it
now runs as fast as I would expect - so it is that that makes the
difference. Why this should be I cannot say (and am not going to spend
time finding out!).
I do have an embarrassingly basic question about my test file which I'll
post in a separate thread.
Best wishes
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On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 at 18:58, Hans Hagen
On 6/22/2025 6:03 PM, John Was wrote:
Yes, it's an odd thing - even odder now since the last two runs have been much faster. This without any intervention from me. It will be interesting to see what happens when I switch off and resume tomorrow. But it's not a serious issue for me at the moment since I'm only using the machine to experiment with various features of the program.
just try this after a fresh start:
context --make
context --make
and note the difference in reported time ... the operating system caches files and programs like tex benefits from this
in the past when running on a network share - in most cases we use(d) opensuse linux servers - using e.g. installations like texlive was basically impossible due to the size which is why we had the minimal distributions, also for pdfex/mkii; i think that over time kpse lookups improved a bit but is is one of the reasons why we had agressive caching in the runners (texexec etc) just so to limit the number of nested kpsewhich database loading overhead and kept startup time bearable
in the meantime startup time of a context run in lmtx should be below .5 seconds and that includes the runner as well as the engine (and on modern systems below .25 sec but i can't check that as i only have laptop hardware pre 2018 to test on)
Hans
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