From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/46355 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: distributed / parallel TeX? Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:53:05 +0100 Message-ID: <4947CEE1.6040107@wxs.nl> References: <4946E2E2.1050108@sil.org> <49476FDB.80309@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229442909 3931 80.91.229.12 (16 Dec 2008 15:55:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:55:09 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Dec 16 16:56:13 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 1LCcHC-0007i7-7a for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:56:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADA281FBFB; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:54:47 +0100 (CET) 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 10668-04-3; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:53:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19D651FBD4; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:53:47 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C11361FBD4 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:53:42 +0100 (CET) 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 10668-04-2 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:53:05 +0100 (CET) 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 DA48E1FBCB for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:53:05 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 17913-1840426 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:53:05 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) In-Reply-To: X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.100 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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:46355 Archived-At: Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Hans Hagen wrote: > >> Lars Huttar wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> We've been using TeX to typeset a 1200-page book, and at that size, the >>> time it takes to run becomes a big issue (especially with multiple >>> passes... about 8 on average). It takes us anywhere from 80 minutes on >>> our fastest machine, to 9 hours on our slowest laptop. >> >> often there are ways to optimize the document style > > In Latex, there is a package called mylatex, which allows you to create > a format consisting of your preamble. Then you can call latex with your > own format and this speeds up things. not on this document since the processing takes way more than the startup in jelle's doc it's the many many many local font definitions and the some 800 metapost graphics that are the culprit - define fonts beforehand - use unique mpgraphic when possible i changes the definitions a bit and now get 5 pages per second on my laptop in luatex; xetex processes the pages a bit faster but spends way more time on the mp part (of course 1450 pages of columnsets and multipage bTABLE's also cost a bit of time) > This approach did not provide a significant speed improvement in latex > for me, and I don't know whether it will do so in context. Hans and > Taco, do you think that creating a personal format and possibly also > dumping some font related info could provide a tradeoff between > processing speed and disk space? it depends, you might win maybe a second per run when on startup in cases where you have thousands of small runs but often using a small tree (like the minimals) pays of more 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________