Re: [NTG-context] XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

12 May 2009


      Yue Wang wrote:
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On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Hans Hagen  wrote:
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Yue Wang wrote:
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Hi, Hans:
here is the solution to your great feature:
huh? what great features? what's wrong with the features anyway? you want a
special version that instead prints hundreds of error messages each and
every run because some font is missing which in practice is harmless?
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change
 \def\defaultfontfile{lmmono10-regular}
in font-ini.mkii to
\def\defaultfontfile{"[lmmono10-regular]"}
to disable that feature.
it should be \defaultfontfile{file:lmmono10-regular} (when i  played with
that this morning it made not much difference on the test runs here but the
file: prefix does not hurt)
There is great difference here (8 sec compare to 1.2 seconds per run)
i uploaded a new zip to the website

you can say:

\settrue\tracexetexfonts

as you will see, not that much fonts are loaded; once a font (in 
typefaces) is found, it is remembered; for xetex i now added an extra 
layer of remembering (the checks) so that misses in lookups might happen 
less (it might speed up the MathGamma cases a bit but i didn't notice 
much performance gain so it probably depends on other factors as well)

Hans

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