[tex-live] TeX Live 2004 final vs development
Hans Hagen
pragma at wxs.nl
Tue Nov 30 15:35:08 CET 2004
Karl Berry wrote:
> Perhaps your friend's installation is much faster simply because he did
> it from scratch or something, and the ls-R files are getting built now?
> Or maybe it's a matter of the compilers being better? Or if he's on
> x86_64, maybe your binaries are a lot faster than the generic i386-linux
> ones? Just wild guesses ...
maybe a smaller tree, smaller trees run much faster
concerning 64 bit: tests here demonstrate that 64 bit runs upto 30% faster than
32 bit
if pdftex is used: pdftex's new map file handling mechanism speeds up font
inclusion significantly esp when huge map files are used
Hans
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