From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/40855 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: typescript and memory usage Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 08:58:50 +0200 Message-ID: <481ABBAA.8020101@wxs.nl> References: <87d4o5kfz8.fsf@zapata.tots-ns.net> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209711623 12122 80.91.229.12 (2 May 2008 07:00:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 07:00:23 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri May 02 09:00:59 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JrpGN-0004BN-KH for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 09:00:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 397E91FBD0; Fri, 2 May 2008 09:00:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 06498-02-6; Fri, 2 May 2008 08:59:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 980ED1FB30; Fri, 2 May 2008 08:59:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48BA01FB30 for ; Fri, 2 May 2008 08:59:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 06498-02-5 for ; Fri, 2 May 2008 08:58:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04E481FB1D for ; Fri, 2 May 2008 08:58:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.8.10] (unverified [10.100.8.10]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 3409-1840426 for ; Fri, 02 May 2008 08:58:54 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) In-Reply-To: <87d4o5kfz8.fsf@zapata.tots-ns.net> X-Originating-IP: 10.100.8.10 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:40855 Archived-At: Antoine Junod wrote: > Hello list, > > Thanks to Hans, Hraban, Wolfgang and Aditya, I've successfully played > with typescripts and Garamond PP as provided by Adobe with luatex. > > But I still have a little question :) By reducing my typescript to the > strict minimum, as below, I'm still using 232 Mo (sic) of ram. My > document test only contains nothing but a \switchtobodyfont but it > takes 8.7 seconds to compile on a 4000 bogomips machine (athlon > 2400+). > > For the C lover I am, that seems, errh, HUUUUUGE. on larger docs (say 200 pages) we get 10 pages/sec > Is it normal? yes, lua allocates chunks in growing sizes and font tables are large; the number is not always reflecting the actual usage > Note that if I remove the [features=default] argument, mem is divided > by 2, and time by 3. Also note that if I use more faces, it can go to > 2Go of ram and 2 minutes of computing. hm, the mk test document never tops that much (i think 400 M at most when chinese, arab and zapfino are loaded maybe there's something wrong with garbage collection on youe machine Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________