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

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Adam Lindsay wrote:
> 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.

can you make a small file that runs slower with the new versions?

sometimes these things are not related to context, but to your tex tree: the 
bigger the slower, as well as settings in texmf.cnf

Hans

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