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

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Matthias Weber wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> after the recent discussion of ConTeXt processing (some) files 4 times 
> as often under OS X
> than elsewhere, I decided to upgrade to the most recent beta and run a 
> speed comparison
> on notes I am writing. To my dismay, here are the results:
> 
> Old version:
> 
> ConTeXt  ver: 2004.11.23  fmt: 2004.12.16
> TeXExec 5.2.3
> 
> total run time : 324 seconds
> 
> 
> New version:
> 
> ConTeXt  ver: 2005.03.02  fmt: 2005.3.4
>  total run time : 416 seconds
> 
> And I was hoping for a speed increase by a factor of 4 :(
> (I renamed the TeX source for both runs)
> 
> Of course I am completely ignorant about the internals, but at least
> I didn't expect that it would run slower.

how many runs?

normally context only becomes faster, so i wonder why it is so much slower

did you compare the logs?

Hans

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