[tex-live] TeXLive 2005 is slower than TeXLive2003

[Hans Hagen]

Jinsong Zhao wrote:
> Thanks to Jerzy for pointing me the program ntimer.exe 
> which displays the Elapsed, Kernel, User and Idle time
> of the image specified in the command line.
>
> After run latex from TeXLive2005 and TeXLive 2003 using
> the following command:
>
> ntimer -l -f -s latex sample2e.tex
>
> I get the following results (get with diff), it shows that
> the TeXLive2005 is much slower that TeXLive2003.
>
> Does it just because using pdfeTeXk instead of e-TeXk? 
> If it's true, how to switch to e-TeXk from pdfeTeXk?
>   
this also depends on

(1) the size of the tree
(2) the size of the format 
(3) the memory settings for tex 

i would not be surprised if these differ for your setup for 2003 and 2005

Hans 

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