[tex-live] apparent bug in detex

[Zdenek Wagner]

2010/11/3 Victor Ivrii <vivrii at gmail.com>:
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> My understanding is that the problem (painfully slow performance of
> pdftotext and may be some other executables) is endemic to MacOSX arch
> ppc and I also believe that it was compiled by Richard Koch. So, I am
> forwarding it
>
> As I mentioned on intel it was fast: on my MacPro conversion of 1800
> pages took 35 sec.
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I do not use Windows myself but when recommending pdftotext to my
friends a few years ago I tried it in very old Intel Pentium II 200
MHz with 128 MB RAM running Windows 2000 and it was quite fast. I used
it regularly on Celeron 333 MHz under OS/2 Warp 4.0.
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> Victor
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>> Zdeněk Wagner
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> Victor Ivrii, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
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Zdeněk Wagner
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