Re: texexec slow

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, R. Bastian wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am new on this list. I use pftex and would use ConTeXt installed 
>> with texlive/2007.
>>
>> 'ruby' and 'pdftex' work fine, but 'texexec' (texexec.rb "$@") is very 
>> slow.
>>
>> Where con I get the doc or what shall I do ?
> 
> I do not know if this is related or not...but
> 
> Occasionally I also find that texexec is extremely slow. (Takes about a 
> minute to initiate and then runs fine). This happens, when my internet 

hm, there is some code in there for a distributed kpse server but as it 
is not enabled by default i wonder ... anyhow, i'll remove that code

also, one can use mtxrun as dropin (but the specific aspect has a 
buglet) so in upcoming distributions we will use that


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