[tex-live] TeX performance over the years going downhill

[Akira Kakuto]

> > ===================================================
> > TeXlive 7 (2002)
> >
> > $ pdftex --version
> > pdfTeX (Web2C 7.3.7x) 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211
> > kpathsea version 3.3.7
> >
> >       28.06 real        18.31 user         4.61 sys
> > ===================================================
> >
> >
> > ===================================================
> > TeXlive 2003
> >
> > $ pdftex --version
> > pdfTeX (Web2C 7.5.2) 3.141592-1.11a
> > kpathsea version 3.5.2
> >
> >       32.32 real        25.01 user         5.30 sys
> > ===================================================
> >
> > ===================================================
> > TeXlive 2004
> >
> > $ pdftex --version
> > pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.20b-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3)
> > kpathsea version 3.5.3
> >
> >       56.57 real        45.47 user         7.46 sys
> > ===================================================

In the past, default number of hyphenation pattern files was small.
In these days many pattern files are described in the default
language.dat. Thus format files become considerably larger.
I think this factor is significant in your tests to make
format files.

-- 
Akira Kakuto