Re: Is your ConTeXt too slow?

[Jens-Uwe Morawski <morawski@gmx.net>]

On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 08:28:14 -0500
Jan Hlavacek <jhlavacek@sf.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:03:48AM +0100, Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:
> > On Fri, 08 Nov 2002 09:30:56 +0100
> > Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> > 
> > > At 09:36 PM 11/7/2002 +0100, Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:

> > > >gnome-terminal:         2 min 18 sec
> > > >konsole (KDE-terminal): 1 min 30 sec
> > > >xterm:                  1 min  5 sec
> > > >directly on the console
> > > >         (no X-Windows):       58 sec
> > > >
> > > >Don't ask me for reasons, but if your ConTeXt is too
> > > >slow, ask yourself if you run it on the right terminal -)
> > > 
> > > maybe no ls-R file is found and consulted, resulting in a full scan of the 
> > > texmf file structure.
> > 
> > No, no. TeX finds its files very fast. I could improve that with a smaller
> > texmf-tree, but 1+ min for the job is IMO okay; it runs 3xConTeXt,
> > 2xTeXUtil and 2xMetaPost. The problem is the terminal program. It seems
> > that the drawing of those many messages on the terminal needs much time.
> > If i use a slow terminal, i.e. gnome-terminal, then the runtime increases.

> Did you try to run context with output redirected to a file?  How long
> does that take? 
> 
> try texexec yourfile.tex > logfile

ahh, interesting idea. Now it is independent from the used terminal and a run
needs about 50 seconds.

Jens