[tex-live] kpathsea performance

[Patrick Davey]

Hi Karl,

It’s not just the .fmt . For example, one of the tests I did was just with
a document containing (100) broken image links.. e.g

\centertext{\figure{FILENAME.broken.PNG}}}

With

texmf_casefold_search = 0

it takes 0.2 seconds, without it takes 8s

There is no filename in my tex source containing fmt, however, I do pass in
a .fmt file when I call pdftex, not sure if that makes a difference.
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On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 at 10:31 Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:

> Before I ask anything else, I wonder ... so the actual filenames of some
> of the images (like, hundreds or thousands?) are "something.fmt"?
>
> Can you easily run a test using "something.else" instead?
>
> .fmt in our world means the precompiled TeX format files (latex.fmt,
> etc.). I'm wondering if the definitions relating to searching for our
> .fmt files is interacting with searching for random input files named
> foo.fmt.  --thanks, karl.
>
> --

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