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12 Sep
2008
12 Sep
'08
2:42 p.m.
On Sep 12, 2008, at 10:15 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
(4) at some point (and there are already a few areas where this si true) luatex/mkiv will be faster than a traditional tex engine where all happens in macros (or is hadcodes)
Just a very short remark: I'm testing my presentation stuff extensively these days, and there's a lot of metapost graphics involved. mkiv is amazingly fast, while both mkii and xetex take very long to compile my test files (and clutter the directory with all the intermediate files). Font loading tends to be long at first run and quite efficient thereafter. Thomas