Antoine Junod wrote:

Hello list,

Thanks to Hans, Hraban, Wolfgang and Aditya, I've successfully played with typescripts and Garamond PP as provided by Adobe with luatex.

But I still have a little question :) By reducing my typescript to the strict minimum, as below, I'm still using 232 Mo (sic) of ram. My document test only contains nothing but a \switchtobodyfont but it takes 8.7 seconds to compile on a 4000 bogomips machine (athlon 2400+).

For the C lover I am, that seems, errh, HUUUUUGE.

on larger docs (say 200 pages) we get 10 pages/sec

Is it normal?

yes, lua allocates chunks in growing sizes and font tables are large; the number is not always reflecting the actual usage

Note that if I remove the [features=default] argument, mem is divided by 2, and time by 3. Also note that if I use more faces, it can go to 2Go of ram and 2 minutes of computing.

hm, the mk test document never tops that much (i think 400 M at most when chinese, arab and zapfino are loaded maybe there's something wrong with garbage collection on youe machine Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------