Re: Why searching fonts in xetex is so slow?

From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Why searching fonts in xetex is so slow?
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:43:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49F3057C.3040600@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68bfdc900904250418v3882ca94u22b34fe167104f5b@mail.gmail.com>

Yue Wang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Mojca Miklavec
> <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 03:44, Yue Wang wrote:
>>> Hi, Mojca:
>>>
>>> However, when comment the second line (\definetypeface [iwona] [mm]
>>> [math] [iwona] [default] [encoding=ec]),
>>> TeXExec | runtime: 1.828
>>> total compile time is reduced to only 2 seconds. (of course, equations
>>> are typeset in latin modern).
>> But LM should suffer from the same problem.
>>
> 
> I think LM tfm/otf metrics information are dumped to fmt statically.
> See the TeX82 source code (don't know xetex's situation, but i am sure
> tex82 works like that).

context never dumps fonts in the format

Hans

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