Re: No performance improvement under OS X with new beta?

["Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>]

Matthias Weber said this at Fri, 4 Mar 2005 13:35:13 -0500:

>> Were both runs from the same point--were they "virgin" runs?
>> Did you precede the texexec command with a "texutil --purgeall" 
>> command,
>> for example?
>> -- 
>>
>
>
>My TeX source file is a single file with images. Most of the TeX-work 
>is done for positioning
>floats I think (figures, tables) and for creating backgrounds.
>
>So I just renamed the TeX file for both runs into new file names, and 
>upated TeX for the second run.
>I can redo the experiment on a clone machine which hasn't been updated 
>yet, but I don't
>know whether "texutil --purgeall" will change anything. But if you tell 
>me that it will, I'll give it a try.

Hmm. If you renamed the file for each run, then ignore that advice. I
don't think that would be it, then.
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