Hello Hans, Thank you for --mode=*nofonts and detailed explanation. The mode works well and reduces font loading time from 2.281 to 1.266 seconds! Thankfully, Vyatcheslav

- you can try --mode=*nofonts but keep in mind that this is meant for special cases where styles are loaded immediately on the command line

- it will not save much time; eventually we will have opentype lm math anyway; and half of those fonts are small anyway

- it will result in errors when you don't immediately load a typeface especially if spacing is being set up

- you need a math font because some symbols come from math (like bullets)

- delaying math setup would result in way more overhead as then it needs to be set up inside math (and then it happens grouped)

- also, reported problems resulting from not having load a base font set are unlikely to be looked into

- as i keep optimnizing code, i expect the reported times to drop a bit in the future;

- a resident run might save some load time, but this is compensated by the need to reinitialize all subsystems (apart from a mess)

- computers will become faster anyway and in most runs the startup time is small compared to the other runtime