XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Yue Wang]

Hi, Hans and Jonathan:

I made some testing samples in ConTeXt to test XeTeX. but the result
is quite strange. All benchmark are get from the second run:

Sample 1:

\definefont[a][file:SimSun]
\starttext
\dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\a 你好}}
\stoptext

And here is the result:

XeTeX: TeXExec | runtime: 7.25
LuaTeX: MTXrun | total runtime: 6.719

This is considerablly ok. So we can say that the font switching is pretty fast.

Sample 2:

\definefont[a][file:AdobeSongStd-Light.otf]
\starttext
\dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\a 你好}}
\stoptext

XeTeX: TeXExec | runtime: 63.65
LuaTeX: MTXrun | total runtime: 8.156

Here I only change the font from SimSun to Adobe Song (the two fonts
are almost at the same sice [~10M]).
But the xetex result is very differt from the previous run. it
consumes one minute to compile the file.


Sample 3:


\starttypescript[serif] [myzhfont]
  \definefontsynonym [Serif]           [file:SimSun]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifBold]       [file:SimSun]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic]     [file:SimSun]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [file:SimSun]
\stoptypescript

\starttypescript[sans] [myzhfont]
  \definefontsynonym [Sans]           [file:SimSun]
  \definefontsynonym [SansBold]       [file:SimSun]
  \definefontsynonym [SansItalic]     [file:SimSun]
  \definefontsynonym [SansBoldItalic] [file:SimSun]
\stoptypescript

\starttypescript[mono] [myzhfont]
  \definefontsynonym [Mono]           [file:SimSun]
  \definefontsynonym [MonoBold]       [file:SimSun]
  \definefontsynonym [MonoItalic]     [file:SimSun]
  \definefontsynonym [MonoBoldItalic] [file:SimSun]
\stoptypescript

\definetypeface [myzhfont] [rm] [serif][myzhfont]   [default]
\definetypeface [myzhfont] [ss] [sans] [myzhfont]   [default]
\definetypeface [myzhfont] [tt] [mono] [myzhfont]   [default]

\def\a{\myzhfont}
\starttext
\dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\a 你好}}
\stoptext

XeTeX: TeXExec | runtime: 64.797
LuaTeX: MTXrun | total runtime: 10.797

Here we use SimSun since in the first sample xetex can load simsun quite fast.
However, in this time we define a typescript, and make all the styles
fall into SimSun.
Now xetex behaves quite strangely: it uses one minutes to compile this
single document...


So my question is
- why loading otf is so slow?
- is this a bug in context or in xetex? can it be fixed?
- how can we make sample 3  (using typescript) run faster?


Thanks.

Yue Wang
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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Yue Wang]

Hi:

update: change the second example, remove the ".otf" suffix , and
texexec --xtx gives:
TeXExec | runtime: 5.766
Obviously, this is a parsing bug in ConTeXt.

I doubt the reason to the third one is the same.

Yue Wang



2009/5/12 Yue Wang <yuleopen@gmail.com>:
> Hi, Hans and Jonathan:
>
> I made some testing samples in ConTeXt to test XeTeX. but the result
> is quite strange. All benchmark are get from the second run:
>
> Sample 1:
>
> \definefont[a][file:SimSun]
> \starttext
> \dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\a 你好}}
> \stoptext
>
> And here is the result:
>
> XeTeX: TeXExec | runtime: 7.25
> LuaTeX: MTXrun | total runtime: 6.719
>
> This is considerablly ok. So we can say that the font switching is pretty fast.
>
> Sample 2:
>
> \definefont[a][file:AdobeSongStd-Light.otf]
> \starttext
> \dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\a 你好}}
> \stoptext
>
> XeTeX: TeXExec | runtime: 63.65
> LuaTeX: MTXrun | total runtime: 8.156
>
> Here I only change the font from SimSun to Adobe Song (the two fonts
> are almost at the same sice [~10M]).
> But the xetex result is very differt from the previous run. it
> consumes one minute to compile the file.
>
>
> Sample 3:
>
>
> \starttypescript[serif] [myzhfont]
>  \definefontsynonym [Serif]           [file:SimSun]
>  \definefontsynonym [SerifBold]       [file:SimSun]
>  \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic]     [file:SimSun]
>  \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [file:SimSun]
> \stoptypescript
>
> \starttypescript[sans] [myzhfont]
>  \definefontsynonym [Sans]           [file:SimSun]
>  \definefontsynonym [SansBold]       [file:SimSun]
>  \definefontsynonym [SansItalic]     [file:SimSun]
>  \definefontsynonym [SansBoldItalic] [file:SimSun]
> \stoptypescript
>
> \starttypescript[mono] [myzhfont]
>  \definefontsynonym [Mono]           [file:SimSun]
>  \definefontsynonym [MonoBold]       [file:SimSun]
>  \definefontsynonym [MonoItalic]     [file:SimSun]
>  \definefontsynonym [MonoBoldItalic] [file:SimSun]
> \stoptypescript
>
> \definetypeface [myzhfont] [rm] [serif][myzhfont]   [default]
> \definetypeface [myzhfont] [ss] [sans] [myzhfont]   [default]
> \definetypeface [myzhfont] [tt] [mono] [myzhfont]   [default]
>
> \def\a{\myzhfont}
> \starttext
> \dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\a 你好}}
> \stoptext
>
> XeTeX: TeXExec | runtime: 64.797
> LuaTeX: MTXrun | total runtime: 10.797
>
> Here we use SimSun since in the first sample xetex can load simsun quite fast.
> However, in this time we define a typescript, and make all the styles
> fall into SimSun.
> Now xetex behaves quite strangely: it uses one minutes to compile this
> single document...
>
>
> So my question is
> - why loading otf is so slow?
> - is this a bug in context or in xetex? can it be fixed?
> - how can we make sample 3  (using typescript) run faster?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Yue Wang
>
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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Yue Wang]

Hi,

Sum up:
define a font usng typescripts takes 64.797 seconds.
define a font like \definefont[a][file:SimSun.ttf] takes 55.548 seconds
define a font like \definefont[a][file:SimSun] takes 4.329 seconds
define a font like \font\a="[simsun]" takes 1.812 seconds

Jonathan and Jin-Hwan, sorry for the noise. I am now sure that it is a
context bug, not xetex's.

Yue Wang

2009/5/12 Yue Wang <yuleopen@gmail.com>:
> Hi, Hans and Jonathan:
>
> I made some testing samples in ConTeXt to test XeTeX. but the result
> is quite strange. All benchmark are get from the second run:
>
> Sample 1:
>
> \definefont[a][file:SimSun]
> \starttext
> \dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\a 你好}}
> \stoptext
>
> And here is the result:
>
> XeTeX: TeXExec | runtime: 7.25
> LuaTeX: MTXrun | total runtime: 6.719
>
> This is considerablly ok. So we can say that the font switching is pretty fast.
>
> Sample 2:
>
> \definefont[a][file:AdobeSongStd-Light.otf]
> \starttext
> \dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\a 你好}}
> \stoptext
>
> XeTeX: TeXExec | runtime: 63.65
> LuaTeX: MTXrun | total runtime: 8.156
>
> Here I only change the font from SimSun to Adobe Song (the two fonts
> are almost at the same sice [~10M]).
> But the xetex result is very differt from the previous run. it
> consumes one minute to compile the file.
>
>
> Sample 3:
>
>
> \starttypescript[serif] [myzhfont]
>  \definefontsynonym [Serif]           [file:SimSun]
>  \definefontsynonym [SerifBold]       [file:SimSun]
>  \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic]     [file:SimSun]
>  \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [file:SimSun]
> \stoptypescript
>
> \starttypescript[sans] [myzhfont]
>  \definefontsynonym [Sans]           [file:SimSun]
>  \definefontsynonym [SansBold]       [file:SimSun]
>  \definefontsynonym [SansItalic]     [file:SimSun]
>  \definefontsynonym [SansBoldItalic] [file:SimSun]
> \stoptypescript
>
> \starttypescript[mono] [myzhfont]
>  \definefontsynonym [Mono]           [file:SimSun]
>  \definefontsynonym [MonoBold]       [file:SimSun]
>  \definefontsynonym [MonoItalic]     [file:SimSun]
>  \definefontsynonym [MonoBoldItalic] [file:SimSun]
> \stoptypescript
>
> \definetypeface [myzhfont] [rm] [serif][myzhfont]   [default]
> \definetypeface [myzhfont] [ss] [sans] [myzhfont]   [default]
> \definetypeface [myzhfont] [tt] [mono] [myzhfont]   [default]
>
> \def\a{\myzhfont}
> \starttext
> \dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\a 你好}}
> \stoptext
>
> XeTeX: TeXExec | runtime: 64.797
> LuaTeX: MTXrun | total runtime: 10.797
>
> Here we use SimSun since in the first sample xetex can load simsun quite fast.
> However, in this time we define a typescript, and make all the styles
> fall into SimSun.
> Now xetex behaves quite strangely: it uses one minutes to compile this
> single document...
>
>
> So my question is
> - why loading otf is so slow?
> - is this a bug in context or in xetex? can it be fixed?
> - how can we make sample 3  (using typescript) run faster?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Yue Wang
>
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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Hans Hagen]

Yue Wang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sum up:
> define a font usng typescripts takes 64.797 seconds.
> define a font like \definefont[a][file:SimSun.ttf] takes 55.548 seconds
> define a font like \definefont[a][file:SimSun] takes 4.329 seconds
> define a font like \font\a="[simsun]" takes 1.812 seconds
> 
> Jonathan and Jin-Hwan, sorry for the noise. I am now sure that it is a
> context bug, not xetex's.

and

> update: change the second example, remove the ".otf" suffix , and
> texexec --xtx gives:
> TeXExec | runtime: 5.766
> Obviously, this is a parsing bug in ConTeXt.

context is not parsing for .otf or .ttf and has no reason for it either

Hans

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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Yue Wang]

here is the xelatex result given by a chinese user:

\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{xeCJK}
\setCJKfamilyfont{song}{SimSun}
\begin{document}
{hello {\CJKfamily{song}你好}}\par % 10000 lines
\end{document}

got 209 pages, three seconds to run.
note he is switching  families 20000 times. (\family{foo} in latex ==
\switchbodyfont[foo] in context)

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> Yue Wang wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sum up:
>> define a font usng typescripts takes 64.797 seconds.
>> define a font like \definefont[a][file:SimSun.ttf] takes 55.548 seconds
>> define a font like \definefont[a][file:SimSun] takes 4.329 seconds
>> define a font like \font\a="[simsun]" takes 1.812 seconds
>>
>> Jonathan and Jin-Hwan, sorry for the noise. I am now sure that it is a
>> context bug, not xetex's.
>
> and
>
>> update: change the second example, remove the ".otf" suffix , and
>> texexec --xtx gives:
>> TeXExec | runtime: 5.766
>> Obviously, this is a parsing bug in ConTeXt.
>
> context is not parsing for .otf or .ttf and has no reason for it either
>
> Hans
>
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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Yue Wang]

sorry the the context sample and latex sample are not equivalent
(note the \par).

So I test again:
\starttypescript[serif] [myzhfont]
 \definefontsynonym [Serif]           [file:SimSun]
 \definefontsynonym [SerifBold]       [file:SimSun]
 \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic]     [file:SimSun]
 \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [file:SimSun]
\stoptypescript

\starttypescript[sans] [myzhfont]
 \definefontsynonym [Sans]           [file:SimSun]
 \definefontsynonym [SansBold]       [file:SimSun]
 \definefontsynonym [SansItalic]     [file:SimSun]
 \definefontsynonym [SansBoldItalic] [file:SimSun]
\stoptypescript

\starttypescript[mono] [myzhfont]
 \definefontsynonym [Mono]           [file:SimSun]
 \definefontsynonym [MonoBold]       [file:SimSun]
 \definefontsynonym [MonoItalic]     [file:SimSun]
 \definefontsynonym [MonoBoldItalic] [file:SimSun]
\stoptypescript

\definetypeface [myzhfont] [rm] [serif][myzhfont]   [default]
\definetypeface [myzhfont] [ss] [sans] [myzhfont]   [default]
\definetypeface [myzhfont] [tt] [mono] [myzhfont]   [default]

\def\a{\myzhfont}

\dorecurse{10000}{{hello {\a 你好}}\par}

\bye


XeConTeXt uses 45.502 seconds, while XeLaTeX uses 3 seconds.

2009/5/12 Yue Wang <yuleopen@gmail.com>:
> here is the xelatex result given by a chinese user:
>
> \documentclass{minimal}
> \usepackage{xeCJK}
> \setCJKfamilyfont{song}{SimSun}
> \begin{document}
> {hello {\CJKfamily{song}你好}}\par % 10000 lines
> \end{document}
>
> got 209 pages, three seconds to run.
> note he is switching  families 20000 times. (\family{foo} in latex ==
> \switchbodyfont[foo] in context)
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>> Yue Wang wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Sum up:
>>> define a font usng typescripts takes 64.797 seconds.
>>> define a font like \definefont[a][file:SimSun.ttf] takes 55.548 seconds
>>> define a font like \definefont[a][file:SimSun] takes 4.329 seconds
>>> define a font like \font\a="[simsun]" takes 1.812 seconds
>>>
>>> Jonathan and Jin-Hwan, sorry for the noise. I am now sure that it is a
>>> context bug, not xetex's.
>>
>> and
>>
>>> update: change the second example, remove the ".otf" suffix , and
>>> texexec --xtx gives:
>>> TeXExec | runtime: 5.766
>>> Obviously, this is a parsing bug in ConTeXt.
>>
>> context is not parsing for .otf or .ttf and has no reason for it either
>>
>> Hans
>>
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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Hans Hagen]

Yue Wang wrote:
> here is the xelatex result given by a chinese user:
> 
> \documentclass{minimal}
> \usepackage{xeCJK}
> \setCJKfamilyfont{song}{SimSun}
> \begin{document}
> {hello {\CJKfamily{song}你好}}\par % 10000 lines
> \end{document}
> 
> got 209 pages, three seconds to run.
> note he is switching  families 20000 times. (\family{foo} in latex ==
> \switchbodyfont[foo] in context)

hard to say ... it all depends on how a bodyfont (or typeface) is
defined, how many real fontsa re involved etc; normally, when using a
typeface definition a bodyfont switch is rather efficient as it only
involves one namespace switch + one font switch but when extensive math
definitions are also involved it might take a few more cycles

anyway .. i cannot comment on runtimes as xetex on my windows box runs
too slow (caching issue) and all examples are slow, no matter how i
specify fonts so i will not look into the code till that gets fixed first

Hans



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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Hans Hagen]

 > Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> 
> Hans Hagen wrote:
>> anyway .. i cannot comment on runtimes as xetex on my windows box runs
>> too slow (caching issue) and all examples are slow, no matter how i
>> specify fonts so i will not look into the code till that gets fixed first
> 
> The example with the typescript seems logical to me: a typescript does
> much work beforehand, so I assume SimSum is loaded multiple times.
> 
> I am trying the AdobeSong example as we speak, there surely seems
> something wrong there.

let's start with saying that I have no intention to optimize mkii for 
xetex as we decided some time ago (at the context meeting) that we would 
freeze mkii; so, if things run acceptable that's ok for me; we're also 
not going to optimize any further for pdftex any more unless i need it 
in a high performance project -)

when i delete my font.conf file (i.e. forget about names but only allow 
files) i can run xetex with reasonable performance

some timing:

% 64 sec xetex, 11 sec luatex (56 sec xetex when \nobigmath)

\setupbodyfont[myzhfont]

\dorecurse{10000}{{hello {\switchtobodyfont[myzhfont] 你好}}\par}

% 67 sec xetex, 11.5 sec luatex

\dorecurse{10000}{{hello {\switchtobodyfont[myzhfont] 你好}}\par}

% 5 sec xetex, 7 sec luatex

\setupbodyfont[myzhfont]  \dorecurse{10000}{{hello {你好}}\par}

now, in practice one will not switch complete bodyfonts so often, so 
something like

\setupbodyfont[myzhfont]  \dorecurse{10000}{{\bf hello {你好}}\par}

is more realistic (taks .5 sec more in xetex)

as taco mentioned, switchtobidyfont does way more than just switching a 
font like checking current state which involves checking fontclass, 
size, style etc and setting up font parameters for each case, as well as 
setting up math; fonts, when not yet set, will be loaded but that 
happens only once so that can be kind of neglected

the differences between mkii and mkiv have several reasons:

= mkiv has a more efficient font system as no encodings, mappings, one 
math family etc are involved and as such is much faster (less comma list 
processing, less checking, less mapping and encoding switches)

= in mkii there is a relationship between fonts, languages etc an dall 
need to be (re)synced since anything can have changed; i'm pretty sure 
that context does much more here than latex because we cater for mixed 
typefaces, mixed languages, encodings, etc and all combinations that can 
occur

= mkiv code has been optimized in the process so that might also count a 
bit (but not that much in real situations)

= mkiv can use traditional traditional fonts but does that in a special 
way by turning then into wide fonts which is also more efficient

now, since xetex runs on top of mkii it caries some overhead from 
traditional fonts

if we accept some limitations (i.e. stupify context mkii a bit) we can 
gain some speed (we can probably also load some less code then), for example

\def\updatefontparameters
   {\edef\@@fontfeatures{\truefontdata\fontfile\s!features}%
    \edef\@@fontskewchar{\truefontdata\fontfile\s!skewchar}}

\def\setfontcharacteristics
   {\updatefontparameters
    \the\everyfont}

\let\synchronizepatternswithfont\relax

saves 20 sec on the 10K (irrealistic anyway) run  but then we definitely 
need to make typescripts xetex specific and make sure that no encoded 
font files are used any longer

The question is ... does it pay off for me (as i have to do it in order 
to make sure we don't mess up things for pdftex) to spend time on this?

Probably not.

(Concerning timing: forget about comparing to latex as in practice much 
more is involved like page building etc. There are subsystems in context 
where i could squeeze out yet another .1 second just to see it become 
noise on real runs.)

Hans




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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Taco Hoekwater]

Hans Hagen wrote:
>  > Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>>
>> Hans Hagen wrote:
>>> anyway .. i cannot comment on runtimes as xetex on my windows box runs
>>> too slow (caching issue) and all examples are slow, no matter how i
>>> specify fonts so i will not look into the code till that gets fixed 
>>> first
>>
>> The example with the typescript seems logical to me: a typescript does
>> much work beforehand, so I assume SimSum is loaded multiple times.
>>
>> I am trying the AdobeSong example as we speak, there surely seems
>> something wrong there.
> 
> let's start with saying that I have no intention to optimize mkii for 
> xetex as we decided some time ago (at the context meeting) that we would 

For educational purposes: whether you have

   \definefont[a][file:AdobeSongLight-Std]
or
   \definefont[a][file:AdobeSongLight-Std.otf]

makes no difference to context at all.

The first makes \a expand into (simplified)

  \font\internala="[AdobeSongLight-Std]" at 12pt\internala

the second into

  \font\internala="[AdobeSongLight-Std.otf]" at 12pt\internala

but there are no other macro expansion changes at all. You can test
this yourself by making two alternative files an adding \loggingall
to them, then compare the two logs using diff.

As to the reason why one of the two is much slower than the other:
I do not know for sure, but I suspect that XeTeX does not cache
the (some of) the internals results of font file assignments with
explicit extensions. The speed difference is most certainly *not*
caused by anything the context macros do.

Best wishes,
Taco

PS As to why \definefont is itself slower than \font: it does not
actually define a font \a at a specific size. Instead it defines a
macro \a that defines and then selects a font with an internal,
temporary name, using the local font size etc.









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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Yue Wang]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:
> Hans Hagen wrote:
>>
>>  > Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>>>
>>> Hans Hagen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> anyway .. i cannot comment on runtimes as xetex on my windows box runs
>>>> too slow (caching issue) and all examples are slow, no matter how i
>>>> specify fonts so i will not look into the code till that gets fixed
>>>> first
>>>
>>> The example with the typescript seems logical to me: a typescript does
>>> much work beforehand, so I assume SimSum is loaded multiple times.
>>>
>>> I am trying the AdobeSong example as we speak, there surely seems
>>> something wrong there.
>>
>> let's start with saying that I have no intention to optimize mkii for
>> xetex as we decided some time ago (at the context meeting) that we would
>
> For educational purposes: whether you have
>
>  \definefont[a][file:AdobeSongLight-Std]
> or
>  \definefont[a][file:AdobeSongLight-Std.otf]
>
> makes no difference to context at all.
>
> The first makes \a expand into (simplified)
>
>  \font\internala="[AdobeSongLight-Std]" at 12pt\internala
>
> the second into
>
>  \font\internala="[AdobeSongLight-Std.otf]" at 12pt\internala
>
> but there are no other macro expansion changes at all. You can test
> this yourself by making two alternative files an adding \loggingall
> to them, then compare the two logs using diff.
>
> As to the reason why one of the two is much slower than the other:
> I do not know for sure, but I suspect that XeTeX does not cache
> the (some of) the internals results of font file assignments with
> explicit extensions. The speed difference is most certainly *not*
> caused by anything the context macros do.
>

disagreed: you can test by yourself that

\font\a="[simsun]"
\starttext
\dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\a 你好}\par}
\stoptext

runtime: TeXExec | runtime: 2.922

\font\a="[simsun.ttf]"
\starttext
\dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\a 你好}\par}
\stoptext

runtime: TeXExec | runtime: 2.938




> Best wishes,
> Taco
>
> PS As to why \definefont is itself slower than \font: it does not
> actually define a font \a at a specific size. Instead it defines a
> macro \a that defines and then selects a font with an internal,
> temporary name, using the local font size etc.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Taco Hoekwater]

Yue Wang wrote:
> 
> \font\a="[simsun]"
> \starttext
> \dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\a 你好}\par}
> \stoptext
> 
> runtime: TeXExec | runtime: 2.922
> 
> \font\a="[simsun.ttf]"
> \starttext
> \dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\a 你好}\par}
> \stoptext
> 
> runtime: TeXExec | runtime: 2.938

Please try an otf font and/or actually compare the log files,
as I said.

Best wishes,
Taco

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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Hans Hagen]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> 
> Yue Wang wrote:
>> \font\a="[simsun]"
>> \starttext
>> \dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\a 你好}\par}
>> \stoptext
>>
>> runtime: TeXExec | runtime: 2.922
>>
>> \font\a="[simsun.ttf]"
>> \starttext
>> \dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\a 你好}\par}
>> \stoptext
>>
>> runtime: TeXExec | runtime: 2.938
> 
> Please try an otf font and/or actually compare the log files,
> as I said.

also, make sure that the *same* font is used as on my machine there is
no ttf but a simsun.ttc file so it can well be that th efirst call loads
a different font than the suffix call

Hans

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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Yue Wang]

Hi,

 \font\a="[AdobeSongStd-Light.otf]"
 \starttext
 \dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\a 你好}\par}
 \stoptext
runtime = 3.25

 \font\a="[AdobeSongStd-Light]"
 \starttext
 \dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\a 你好}\par}
 \stoptext
runtime=3.234

Yue Wang

2009/5/12 Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>:
>
>
> Yue Wang wrote:
>>
>> \font\a="[simsun]"
>> \starttext
>> \dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\a 你好}\par}
>> \stoptext
>>
>> runtime: TeXExec | runtime: 2.922
>>
>> \font\a="[simsun.ttf]"
>> \starttext
>> \dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\a 你好}\par}
>> \stoptext
>>
>> runtime: TeXExec | runtime: 2.938
>
> Please try an otf font and/or actually compare the log files,
> as I said.
>
> Best wishes,
> Taco
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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Hans Hagen]

Yue Wang wrote:

>>> \font\a="[simsun]"
>>> \starttext
>>> \dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\a 你好}\par}
>>> \stoptext
>>>
>>> runtime: TeXExec | runtime: 2.922
>>>
>>> \font\a="[simsun.ttf]"
>>> \starttext
>>> \dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\a 你好}\par}
>>> \stoptext

as taco already mentioned there's a problem with xetex caching fonts

in a traditional tex engine (pdftex, xetex) one can say

\font\xxx=blabla

many times but blabla is loaded only once; however, it looks like in the
following case

\font\xxx=blabla.suffix

no caching takes place and as a result you load the font 10000 times
(can be seen when you enable a file tracer)

however, memory consumption does grow only in small steps so some
caching takes place (maybe only new id's)

if you define a font grouped {\a ...} the font gets defined each time
(as context has delayed font loading and supports local redefinitions
which is quite handy when using SymbolicNames for fonts) and normally
xetex's internal caching should make that efficient

i would not be surprised if the (forced) name-lookup problems are kind
of related to this

so ... this suffix problem is not related to context at all

Hans

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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Taco Hoekwater]

Yue Wang wrote:
> 
>  \font\a="[AdobeSongStd-Light]"

Why? I asked to use \definefont.


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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Yue Wang]

Hi,


On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:
>
>
> Yue Wang wrote:
>>
>>  \font\a="[AdobeSongStd-Light]"
>
> Why? I asked to use \definefont.

After reading Hans' explanation, I understand what you said now.
\dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\font\a="[AdobeSongStd-Light]"\a 你好}\par}
is fast while
\dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\font\a="[AdobeSongStd-Light.otf]"\a 你好}\par}
is slow

Thank you. Will report that to Jonathan Kew.


Yue Wang
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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Yue Wang]

Thank you, Taco.

currently I found one way to speed up font loading:

\synchronizemathfontsfalse
\let\synchronizetext\relax
\starttypescript[serif] [myzhfont]
 \definefontsynonym [Serif]           [file:SimSun]
\stoptypescript
\definetypeface [myzhfont] [rm] [serif][myzhfont]   [default]
\def\a{\myzhfont}
\dorecurse{10000}{{hello {\a 你好}}\par}
\bye

TeXExec | runtime: 10.172
much faster, but still far slower than \definefont.

this reminds me another possible bug in ConTeXt:



Test1:

\definetypeface[iwona][ss][sans] [iwona] [default]
\definetypeface[iwona][mm][math] [iwona] [default][text=ss]
\setupbodyfont[iwona]
\starttext
foobar
\stoptext

runtime= 6.625. There is a 5 seconds pause after loading
(c:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/spec-xet.tex)

But I don't know what xetex is loading.




Test 2:

\definetypeface[iwona][ss][sans] [iwona] [default]
%\definetypeface[iwona][mm][math] [iwona] [default][text=ss]
\setupbodyfont[iwona]
\starttext
foobar
\stoptext

I only comment the math defination line. now
runetime = 0.969




Test 3:

move the three lines to context.rme,
\definetypeface[iwona][ss][sans] [iwona] [default]
\definetypeface[iwona][mm][math] [iwona] [default][text=ss]
\setupbodyfont[iwona]
then rebuild the format.
note we also load the math font. but one thing is clear: Hans said
unlike plain TeX and LaTeX, font tfm is not dumped into ConTeXt
format.
However, at this time we compile
\starttext
foobar
\stoptext

runtime =0.875

I don't know the reason for this problem too....
I think XeTeX load math tfms quite fast. (it should be even faster
than otf loading, but in xecontext, this is not true).


Yue Wang

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hans Hagen wrote:
>> anyway .. i cannot comment on runtimes as xetex on my windows box runs
>> too slow (caching issue) and all examples are slow, no matter how i
>> specify fonts so i will not look into the code till that gets fixed first
>
> The example with the typescript seems logical to me: a typescript does
> much work beforehand, so I assume SimSum is loaded multiple times.
>
> I am trying the AdobeSong example as we speak, there surely seems
> something wrong there.
>
> Best wishes,
> Taco
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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Hans Hagen]

Yue Wang wrote:
> Thank you, Taco.
> 
> currently I found one way to speed up font loading:
> 
> \synchronizemathfontsfalse
> \let\synchronizetext\relax
> \starttypescript[serif] [myzhfont]
>  \definefontsynonym [Serif]           [file:SimSun]
> \stoptypescript
> \definetypeface [myzhfont] [rm] [serif][myzhfont]   [default]
> \def\a{\myzhfont}
> \dorecurse{10000}{{hello {\a 你好}}\par}
> \bye

as wolfgang already pointed out, if you want fast fonts you should
define them directly using \definefont

if you disable bits and pieces of the setupbodyfont mechanism you will
eventually run into problems, for instance because \tfd etc are not
defined and your chapter titles etc will behave unexpected (sizes as
well as when mixed with math)

in a regular document you only set up the bodyfont once (not 10000
times) and then use \bf, \sl, \itc etc which are pretty fast

> TeXExec | runtime: 10.172
> much faster, but still far slower than \definefont.
> 
> this reminds me another possible bug in ConTeXt:

as mentioned ... we're no talking bugs here but 'features' and side
effects of them

> 
> Test1:
> 
> \definetypeface[iwona][ss][sans] [iwona] [default]
> \definetypeface[iwona][mm][math] [iwona] [default][text=ss]
> \setupbodyfont[iwona]
> \starttext
> foobar
> \stoptext
> 
> runtime= 6.625. There is a 5 seconds pause after loading
> (c:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/spec-xet.tex)
> 
> But I don't know what xetex is loading.

fonts (like the sans and more noticeably math (6 families * 3 sizes = 18
fonts at least)

> Test 2:
> 
> \definetypeface[iwona][ss][sans] [iwona] [default]
> %\definetypeface[iwona][mm][math] [iwona] [default][text=ss]
> \setupbodyfont[iwona]
> \starttext
> foobar
> \stoptext
> 
> I only comment the math defination line. now
> runetime = 0.969

right .. and as context is supposed to do math (keep in mind that some
symbols come from math anyway) this is expected

> Test 3:
> 
> move the three lines to context.rme,
> \definetypeface[iwona][ss][sans] [iwona] [default]
> \definetypeface[iwona][mm][math] [iwona] [default][text=ss]
> \setupbodyfont[iwona]
> then rebuild the format.
> note we also load the math font. but one thing is clear: Hans said
> unlike plain TeX and LaTeX, font tfm is not dumped into ConTeXt
> format.

well, in this case you probably *did* force them in format; the normal
default font (lm) is not in the format and loading is delayed

> However, at this time we compile
> \starttext
> foobar
> \stoptext
> 
> runtime =0.875
> 
> I don't know the reason for this problem too....
> I think XeTeX load math tfms quite fast. (it should be even faster
> than otf loading, but in xecontext, this is not true).

more needs to be set up ... not only fonts, + some testing + ...

just do a \tracingall before setupbodyfont and you will see

Hans

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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Yue Wang]

2009/5/12 Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>:
> Yue Wang wrote:
>> Thank you, Taco.
>>
>> currently I found one way to speed up font loading:
>>
>> \synchronizemathfontsfalse
>> \let\synchronizetext\relax
>> \starttypescript[serif] [myzhfont]
>>  \definefontsynonym [Serif]           [file:SimSun]
>> \stoptypescript
>> \definetypeface [myzhfont] [rm] [serif][myzhfont]   [default]
>> \def\a{\myzhfont}
>> \dorecurse{10000}{{hello {\a 你好}}\par}
>> \bye
>
> as wolfgang already pointed out, if you want fast fonts you should
> define them directly using \definefont
>

I have no speed gain while testing his example.


> if you disable bits and pieces of the setupbodyfont mechanism you will
> eventually run into problems, for instance because \tfd etc are not
> defined and your chapter titles etc will behave unexpected (sizes as
> well as when mixed with math)
>

You are right.

> in a regular document you only set up the bodyfont once (not 10000
> times) and then use \bf, \sl, \itc etc which are pretty fast
>

for multilingual typesetting this is different.
different fonts will be used for full-width punctuations,
cjk-characters (maybe also splict to ruby, kanji, hangul and hanzi),
cjk-exta, cjk-extb, and latin. for a not-so-long document (100 pages),
switching more than 100times/page is ordinary case.
Especially for educational documents (For example, English text book
for Chinese students)


>> TeXExec | runtime: 10.172
>> much faster, but still far slower than \definefont.
>>
>> this reminds me another possible bug in ConTeXt:
>
> as mentioned ... we're no talking bugs here but 'features' and side
> effects of them

ok. this is a feature that I don't like so much...

>
>>
>> Test1:
>>
>> \definetypeface[iwona][ss][sans] [iwona] [default]
>> \definetypeface[iwona][mm][math] [iwona] [default][text=ss]
>> \setupbodyfont[iwona]
>> \starttext
>> foobar
>> \stoptext
>>
>> runtime= 6.625. There is a 5 seconds pause after loading
>> (c:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/spec-xet.tex)
>>
>> But I don't know what xetex is loading.
>
> fonts (like the sans and more noticeably math (6 families * 3 sizes = 18
> fonts at least)
>

but it's pretty fast on mac (only 1 second delay) on the same machine.
[mac do not use fontconfig for searching system fonts]
Strange uh? Well, I call it Windows features:)

moreover, can you tell me why pdftex load these fonts so fast? (also 6
families * 3 sizes)

>> Test 2:
>>
>> \definetypeface[iwona][ss][sans] [iwona] [default]
>> %\definetypeface[iwona][mm][math] [iwona] [default][text=ss]
>> \setupbodyfont[iwona]
>> \starttext
>> foobar
>> \stoptext
>>
>> I only comment the math defination line. now
>> runetime = 0.969
>
> right .. and as context is supposed to do math (keep in mind that some
> symbols come from math anyway) this is expected
>

ok.

>> Test 3:
>>
>> move the three lines to context.rme,
>> \definetypeface[iwona][ss][sans] [iwona] [default]
>> \definetypeface[iwona][mm][math] [iwona] [default][text=ss]
>> \setupbodyfont[iwona]
>> then rebuild the format.
>> note we also load the math font. but one thing is clear: Hans said
>> unlike plain TeX and LaTeX, font tfm is not dumped into ConTeXt
>> format.
>
> well, in this case you probably *did* force them in format; the normal
> default font (lm) is not in the format and loading is delayed
>

no. I did exactly the same as the default settings do.
you also use :
    \setupencoding[default=ec]
\usetypescript[fallback][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[rm,12pt]
in cont-en.tex. also in context.tex:
\setupencoding[default=ec]
\usetypescript[fallback][\defaultencoding]
\setupbodyfont[rm,12pt]

So I am not forcing them into the format. actually the loading of
iwona is delayed to runtime.


>> However, at this time we compile
>> \starttext
>> foobar
>> \stoptext
>>
>> runtime =0.875
>>
>> I don't know the reason for this problem too....
>> I think XeTeX load math tfms quite fast. (it should be even faster
>> than otf loading, but in xecontext, this is not true).
>
> more needs to be set up ... not only fonts, + some testing + ...
>
> just do a \tracingall before setupbodyfont and you will see
>
> Hans
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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

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Yue Wang wrote:


> moreover, can you tell me why pdftex load these fonts so fast? (also 6
> families * 3 sizes)

i don't know; as the same code is used so it must be xetex itself then


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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Yue Wang]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> Yue Wang wrote:
>
>
>> moreover, can you tell me why pdftex load these fonts so fast? (also 6
>> families * 3 sizes)
>
> i don't know; as the same code is used so it must be xetex itself then

Then let me tell you why: ConTeXt tries to load lmmono10-regular at
least 6 times, failed after two testing, then succeed in the end.
However, try to testing whether a loaded font is \nullfont or not is
quite slow in XeTeX (Jonathan already mentioned that in
\testFontIsAvailable). we should definately avoid that.
But why pdftex is so fast? because it does not involve font testing.

So why XeTeX is spending 6 seconds aimlessly? since ConTeXt asked it
to search for a non-existed font.

Yue Wang




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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Yue Wang]

Hi, Hans:

here is the solution to your great feature:

change
 \def\defaultfontfile{lmmono10-regular}
in font-ini.mkii to
\def\defaultfontfile{"[lmmono10-regular]"}
to disable that feature.

Yue Wang

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Yue Wang <yuleopen@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>> Yue Wang wrote:
>>
>>
>>> moreover, can you tell me why pdftex load these fonts so fast? (also 6
>>> families * 3 sizes)
>>
>> i don't know; as the same code is used so it must be xetex itself then
>
> Then let me tell you why: ConTeXt tries to load lmmono10-regular at
> least 6 times, failed after two testing, then succeed in the end.
> However, try to testing whether a loaded font is \nullfont or not is
> quite slow in XeTeX (Jonathan already mentioned that in
> \testFontIsAvailable). we should definately avoid that.
> But why pdftex is so fast? because it does not involve font testing.
>
> So why XeTeX is spending 6 seconds aimlessly? since ConTeXt asked it
> to search for a non-existed font.
>
> Yue Wang
>
>
>
>
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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Hans Hagen]

Yue Wang wrote:
> Hi, Hans:
> 
> here is the solution to your great feature:

huh? what great features? what's wrong with the features anyway? you 
want a special version that instead prints hundreds of error messages 
each and every run because some font is missing which in practice is 
harmless?

> change
>  \def\defaultfontfile{lmmono10-regular}
> in font-ini.mkii to
> \def\defaultfontfile{"[lmmono10-regular]"}
> to disable that feature.

it should be \defaultfontfile{file:lmmono10-regular} (when i  played 
with that this morning it made not much difference on the test runs here 
but the file: prefix does not hurt)

don't use the "[ ]" syntax which is rather engine specific

i moved all xetex code to a separate file font-xtx now (not sure if that 
  has side effects due to definition order but don't want to mess up the 
mkii code)

but it cannot solve the suffix problem nor the name lookup problems due 
to caching

Hans

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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Yue Wang]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> Yue Wang wrote:
>>
>> Hi, Hans:
>>
>> here is the solution to your great feature:
>
> huh? what great features? what's wrong with the features anyway? you want a
> special version that instead prints hundreds of error messages each and
> every run because some font is missing which in practice is harmless?
>
>> change
>>  \def\defaultfontfile{lmmono10-regular}
>> in font-ini.mkii to
>> \def\defaultfontfile{"[lmmono10-regular]"}
>> to disable that feature.
>
> it should be \defaultfontfile{file:lmmono10-regular} (when i  played with
> that this morning it made not much difference on the test runs here but the
> file: prefix does not hurt)


There is great difference here (8 sec compare to 1.2 seconds per run)

>
> don't use the "[ ]" syntax which is rather engine specific

But that line is enclosed in
\ifXeTeX and \endif...
So it will be fine.

>
> i moved all xetex code to a separate file font-xtx now (not sure if that
>  has side effects due to definition order but don't want to mess up the mkii
> code)
>

I see.

> but it cannot solve the suffix problem nor the name lookup problems due to
> caching

I already reported that feature/bug to Jonathan Kew


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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Hans Hagen]

Yue Wang wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>> Yue Wang wrote:
>>> Hi, Hans:
>>>
>>> here is the solution to your great feature:
>> huh? what great features? what's wrong with the features anyway? you want a
>> special version that instead prints hundreds of error messages each and
>> every run because some font is missing which in practice is harmless?
>>
>>> change
>>>  \def\defaultfontfile{lmmono10-regular}
>>> in font-ini.mkii to
>>> \def\defaultfontfile{"[lmmono10-regular]"}
>>> to disable that feature.
>> it should be \defaultfontfile{file:lmmono10-regular} (when i  played with
>> that this morning it made not much difference on the test runs here but the
>> file: prefix does not hurt)
> 
> 
> There is great difference here (8 sec compare to 1.2 seconds per run)

makes no difference here for the big test

\setupbodyfont[myzhfont] \dorecurse{10000}{{hello 
{\switchtobodyfont[myzhfont] 你好}}\par}

so it's probably also an operating system issue (caching files in mem, 
disk access etc)

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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Yue Wang]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> Yue Wang wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yue Wang wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi, Hans:
>>>>
>>>> here is the solution to your great feature:
>>>
>>> huh? what great features? what's wrong with the features anyway? you want
>>> a
>>> special version that instead prints hundreds of error messages each and
>>> every run because some font is missing which in practice is harmless?
>>>
>>>> change
>>>>  \def\defaultfontfile{lmmono10-regular}
>>>> in font-ini.mkii to
>>>> \def\defaultfontfile{"[lmmono10-regular]"}
>>>> to disable that feature.
>>>
>>> it should be \defaultfontfile{file:lmmono10-regular} (when i  played with
>>> that this morning it made not much difference on the test runs here but
>>> the
>>> file: prefix does not hurt)
>>
>>
>> There is great difference here (8 sec compare to 1.2 seconds per run)
>
> makes no difference here for the big test
>

Well, I always split my projects into small pieces so... it really counts.


> \setupbodyfont[myzhfont] \dorecurse{10000}{{hello
> {\switchtobodyfont[myzhfont] 你好}}\par}
>
> so it's probably also an operating system issue (caching files in mem, disk
> access etc)
>

Well, that is possible. But in fact no new font is defined during the
font switching, which is paradoxical.
I will look into that tomorrow.

Please fix the
- lmmono defination
- unicode-letters charclass definations
- mpgraphics displacement bug (or feature...)
- dvipdfmx focus=standard feature
that I reported today.

Thank you. Good night and good luck!

Yue Wang

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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Yue Wang]

Hi, Hans:

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> \setupbodyfont[myzhfont] \dorecurse{10000}{{hello
> {\switchtobodyfont[myzhfont] 你好}}\par}
> so it's probably also an operating system issue (caching files in mem, disk access etc)

After debugging for half an hour in the morning, finally I know why
this is so slow on both XeTeX and pdfTeX.
This problem is not an operating system issue, But a ConTeXt "feature".

in font-mkii, you use the following to define a actual font
(\definefontlocal and \definefontglobal):
  {\expandafter\xdef\csname#1\endcsname  % ! ! ! ! not needed in luatex ! ! ! !
     {\noexpand\csname#1:\endcsname
      \noexpand\reactivatefont{\somefontname}{\fontfile}}%

For example, in the previous example, it will define a lot of fonts,
like \*myzhfont12ptmmexrm*: , is defined as
\reactivatefont{cmex10}{lmex10}. When define that font, a macro
\*myzhfont12ptmmexrm* is defined to select the \*myzhfont12ptmmexrm* :
font.
\*myzhfont12ptmmexrm* =\csname *myzhfont12ptmmexrm* :\endcsname
\reactivefont{cmex10}{lmex10}
TeX then expand your reactivatefont macros to lmex10 at 12.0pt. So the
\*myzhfont12ptmmexrm*: font will assigned to lmex10 at 12.0pt. This is
quite right for definition.

However, after switching the font, the problems occurs:
it tries to call \*myzhfont12ptmmexrm* macro. the macro then expands to
\csname *myzhfont12ptmmexrm* :\endcsname \reactivefont{cmex10}{lmex10}
then to
\*myzhfont12ptmmexrm* :\reactivefont{cmex10}{lmex10}
and here TeX tries to do the following thing:
TeX select the font \*myzhfont12ptmmexrm*:, which is lmex10 at 12pt,
then *changing* into that font environment in order to *typeset*
\reactivefont.  it then expand the macro of reacitve font, but found
nothing to typeset...

what's worse, this will occur on every real fonts in the definition.
So in fact TeX will switching dozens of fonts into the *current* font
for a "\switchtobodyfont" call, in order to typeset nothing. And
that's why ConTeXt is so slow on typeface changing.

The solution to this bug (or feature?) is quite easy, just use \font
to define the \*myzhfont12ptmmexrm*: font, but pay attention not to
switch the current font to \*myzhfont12ptmmexrm*: . Since it is quite
slow to switch to dozens of font for one \switchtobodyfont call even
in Knuth TeX.




Yue Wang









> so it's probably also an operating system issue (caching files in mem, disk
> access etc)
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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Yue Wang]

I can confirm that I am wrong.

2009/5/13 Yue Wang <yuleopen@gmail.com>:
> Hi, Hans:
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>> \setupbodyfont[myzhfont] \dorecurse{10000}{{hello
>> {\switchtobodyfont[myzhfont] 你好}}\par}
>> so it's probably also an operating system issue (caching files in mem, disk access etc)
>
> After debugging for half an hour in the morning, finally I know why
> this is so slow on both XeTeX and pdfTeX.
> This problem is not an operating system issue, But a ConTeXt "feature".
>
> in font-mkii, you use the following to define a actual font
> (\definefontlocal and \definefontglobal):
>  {\expandafter\xdef\csname#1\endcsname  % ! ! ! ! not needed in luatex ! ! ! !
>     {\noexpand\csname#1:\endcsname
>      \noexpand\reactivatefont{\somefontname}{\fontfile}}%
>
> For example, in the previous example, it will define a lot of fonts,
> like \*myzhfont12ptmmexrm*: , is defined as
> \reactivatefont{cmex10}{lmex10}. When define that font, a macro
> \*myzhfont12ptmmexrm* is defined to select the \*myzhfont12ptmmexrm* :
> font.
> \*myzhfont12ptmmexrm* =\csname *myzhfont12ptmmexrm* :\endcsname
> \reactivefont{cmex10}{lmex10}
> TeX then expand your reactivatefont macros to lmex10 at 12.0pt. So the
> \*myzhfont12ptmmexrm*: font will assigned to lmex10 at 12.0pt. This is
> quite right for definition.
>
> However, after switching the font, the problems occurs:
> it tries to call \*myzhfont12ptmmexrm* macro. the macro then expands to
> \csname *myzhfont12ptmmexrm* :\endcsname \reactivefont{cmex10}{lmex10}
> then to
> \*myzhfont12ptmmexrm* :\reactivefont{cmex10}{lmex10}
> and here TeX tries to do the following thing:
> TeX select the font \*myzhfont12ptmmexrm*:, which is lmex10 at 12pt,
> then *changing* into that font environment in order to *typeset*
> \reactivefont.  it then expand the macro of reacitve font, but found
> nothing to typeset...
>
> what's worse, this will occur on every real fonts in the definition.
> So in fact TeX will switching dozens of fonts into the *current* font
> for a "\switchtobodyfont" call, in order to typeset nothing. And
> that's why ConTeXt is so slow on typeface changing.
>
> The solution to this bug (or feature?) is quite easy, just use \font
> to define the \*myzhfont12ptmmexrm*: font, but pay attention not to
> switch the current font to \*myzhfont12ptmmexrm*: . Since it is quite
> slow to switch to dozens of font for one \switchtobodyfont call even
> in Knuth TeX.
>
>
>
>
> Yue Wang
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>> so it's probably also an operating system issue (caching files in mem, disk
>> access etc)
>>
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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

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Yue Wang wrote:

> After debugging for half an hour in the morning, finally I know why
> this is so slow on both XeTeX and pdfTeX.
> This problem is not an operating system issue, But a ConTeXt "feature".
> 
> in font-mkii, you use the following to define a actual font
> (\definefontlocal and \definefontglobal):
>   {\expandafter\xdef\csname#1\endcsname  % ! ! ! ! not needed in luatex ! ! ! !
>      {\noexpand\csname#1:\endcsname
>       \noexpand\reactivatefont{\somefontname}{\fontfile}}%
> 
> For example, in the previous example, it will define a lot of fonts,
> like \*myzhfont12ptmmexrm*: , is defined as
> \reactivatefont{cmex10}{lmex10}. When define that font, a macro
> \*myzhfont12ptmmexrm* is defined to select the \*myzhfont12ptmmexrm* :
> font.
> \*myzhfont12ptmmexrm* =\csname *myzhfont12ptmmexrm* :\endcsname
> \reactivefont{cmex10}{lmex10}
> TeX then expand your reactivatefont macros to lmex10 at 12.0pt. So the
> \*myzhfont12ptmmexrm*: font will assigned to lmex10 at 12.0pt. This is
> quite right for definition.
> 
> However, after switching the font, the problems occurs:
> it tries to call \*myzhfont12ptmmexrm* macro. the macro then expands to
> \csname *myzhfont12ptmmexrm* :\endcsname \reactivefont{cmex10}{lmex10}
> then to
> \*myzhfont12ptmmexrm* :\reactivefont{cmex10}{lmex10}
> and here TeX tries to do the following thing:
> TeX select the font \*myzhfont12ptmmexrm*:, which is lmex10 at 12pt,
> then *changing* into that font environment in order to *typeset*
> \reactivefont.  it then expand the macro of reacitve font, but found
> nothing to typeset...

some of that activation can involve things that set up the font (some
related properties) so the mechanism is kind of generic; at that point
it is not possible to determine what is relevant and what not

changing such things at frst sight might lead to unexpected side effects
later on (as the context history has proven)

although part of the activation code can be disables when defining a
sequence of fonts (as in a massive switch) it would complicate the font
code even more to do so; in mkiv we do need less of that as explained
below (hence the remark 'not needed in luatex')

for instance, we can redefine (for xetex)

\def\updatefontparameters
  {\edef\@@fontfeatures{\truefontdata\fontfile    \s!features}%
   \edef\@@fontskewchar{\truefontdata\fontfile    \s!skewchar}}

\def\setfontcharacteristics
  {%\updatefontparameters % redundant, will go away, faster too
   \the\everyfont
   \synchronizepatternswithfont}

Which is faster,  but then we also need to make absolutely sure that
xetex only uses opentype fonts (which in turn means that we need to
provide separate typescript files for xetex to make sure that this
happens); this can be significant on a 10 second job with 10K switches,
but less in a complex document that takes 2 minutes to process, or as we
sometimes had, 20 minute jobs

Another option is to make all sizes (\tf*) optional, which then would
force a typeface switch in heads which in turn slows down things at that
end, or you could disable bigmath (that follows the sizes) and then end
 up with mails to this list why math does not scale in titles, etc etc

> what's worse, this will occur on every real fonts in the definition.
> So in fact TeX will switching dozens of fonts into the *current* font
> for a "\switchtobodyfont" call, in order to typeset nothing. And
> that's why ConTeXt is so slow on typeface changing.
> 
> The solution to this bug (or feature?) is quite easy, just use \font
> to define the \*myzhfont12ptmmexrm*: font, but pay attention not to
> switch the current font to \*myzhfont12ptmmexrm*: . Since it is quite
> slow to switch to dozens of font for one \switchtobodyfont call even
> in Knuth TeX.

You make it sound as all of the font system's features are kind of wrong
and contain oversights ... i'm not going to enter a discussion about the
how and why of the context way of doing things as it is a accumulation
of over 15 years of development and experients and realistic typesetting
situations. We're not that stupid.

In mkii (and to a lesser extent in mkiv) we have to deal with several
situations:

Fonts have 256 chars at most so they cannot cover each language. This
means that when one mixes languages, one also might need multiple fonts.
 For instance using two complete different typefaces, one with ec
encoding, another with texnansi encoding and both with different math
fonts also in a different encoding is happing at our end.

As fonts encodings are related to hyphenation, there is a relationship
between a font switch and a language switch i.e. when we're typesetting
in czech it might be that a font switch also results in a patterns
switch due to the fact that patterns relate to fonts. The fact that CJK
does not hyphenate is no reason to remove that feature from the font
system. I know that the latex way of doing things is to replace and
redefine core code for specific purposes, but that's not the way we do
things in context. In my own usage i just accepted the fact that in
order to typeset my own stuff my jobs ran slower because other languages
needed other features to be present.

So, we have encodings, languages, upper/lowercase mappings, font
handling, some math properties, etc. so in practice several bits and
pieces need to be synchronized when we switch a font (not relevant maybe
for cjk but definitely relevant for other scripts). There can even be
weird font related issues that need to be dealt with.

Now, when one uses a typeface (i.e. fontclasses) the actual loading of
the font takes place only once as we assume that one will not redefine a
typeface mid-document. The only things that happening with each
(individual) font switch are these synchronizations.

When switching a typeface, only a few fonts are really defined (loaded)
as tracing shows but some things are set up each time (of course, as we
obey grouping). If you are sure that there are no dependencies (i.e. a
regular title with embedded bold, math, etc) you can use \definefont and
assign that font to the style property of for instance a section head.

The whole system is targeting at situations that we have to deal with at
pragma, and when setting up styles it's no big deal to do that
efficiently with a mix of typefaces and \definefont definitions (using
symbolic FontNames so that encoding etc is nicely dealt with). You
mentioned many font switches in your document, well believe me, some of
the documents we produce have many too and compared to other typesetting
tasks dealing with fonts is not the bottleneck.

Now, in mkiv we have a bit less complex system because we only have one
input encoding (utf i.e. unicode), one font encoding (unicode), and one
math encoding (unicode) and so it has a more optimal code base. As xetex
shares code with pdftex (both use mkii) code, it has the burden of some
overhead not needed if we'd settle on one encoding (although xetex does
handle multiple font encodings). However, that would demand a partial
rewrite of the mkii font subsystem specially for xetex (and eventually
also for the math subsystem) which is currently not on the agenda
(unless i need it in well paid projects).

As i mentioned yesterday, i can disable a few aspects of mkii in xetex
mode, but the gain is not so large and as i don't use xetex on a regular
basis it does not pay off to complicate the code. Simplified math might
make a difference but as lm/gyre open type math is not there yet, i
won't even start looking into it (if at all). The problem is simply that
mkii (or derived xetex upgrades) will not keep up with mkiv anyway. I
don't see much reason for making an advanced mkiv system (which takes
time) and then derive a crippled halfway mkii-mkiv system just for fun
(which is not that much fun actually; okay, if someone comes up with a
project i might refactor bit and pieces).

So, no bugs, nor 'features' but just features cq. functionality that is
the result of over 15 years of supporting everything that came along.
Reading of the font related docs that come with context probably reveal
much of this anyway.

Context deals (and is made for) mixed languages, fonts, etc etc and it
will stay that way. We will not optimize for specific usage. Also, in
practice font switching only part of the game and other typesetting
tasks might take much more time (esp when one sets up complex page
layouts).

Hans

ps. in mkiv we gain time at the definition end but then loose it at the
processing end because there we want to do more clever things that take
time anyway

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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Hans Hagen]

Yue Wang wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>> Yue Wang wrote:
>>> Hi, Hans:
>>>
>>> here is the solution to your great feature:
>> huh? what great features? what's wrong with the features anyway? you want a
>> special version that instead prints hundreds of error messages each and
>> every run because some font is missing which in practice is harmless?
>>
>>> change
>>>  \def\defaultfontfile{lmmono10-regular}
>>> in font-ini.mkii to
>>> \def\defaultfontfile{"[lmmono10-regular]"}
>>> to disable that feature.
>> it should be \defaultfontfile{file:lmmono10-regular} (when i  played with
>> that this morning it made not much difference on the test runs here but the
>> file: prefix does not hurt)
> 
> 
> There is great difference here (8 sec compare to 1.2 seconds per run)

i uploaded a new zip to the website

you can say:

\settrue\tracexetexfonts

as you will see, not that much fonts are loaded; once a font (in 
typefaces) is found, it is remembered; for xetex i now added an extra 
layer of remembering (the checks) so that misses in lookups might happen 
less (it might speed up the MathGamma cases a bit but i didn't notice 
much performance gain so it probably depends on other factors as well)

Hans

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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Hans Hagen]

Yue Wang wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>> Yue Wang wrote:
>>
>>
>>> moreover, can you tell me why pdftex load these fonts so fast? (also 6
>>> families * 3 sizes)
>> i don't know; as the same code is used so it must be xetex itself then
> 
> Then let me tell you why: ConTeXt tries to load lmmono10-regular at
> least 6 times, failed after two testing, then succeed in the end.
> However, try to testing whether a loaded font is \nullfont or not is
> quite slow in XeTeX (Jonathan already mentioned that in
> \testFontIsAvailable). we should definately avoid that.
> But why pdftex is so fast? because it does not involve font testing.
> 
> So why XeTeX is spending 6 seconds aimlessly? since ConTeXt asked it
> to search for a non-existed font.

well, even locating a font 6 times should be no big deal

btw, you can try to change the following into

\def\defaultfontfile{file:lmmono10-regular}

but even then ... if that one is used then there is something else going 
on so best find out what happens ... in context we can have 4 extra math 
families and in most cases only two are used (MathAlpha and MathBeta) 
while (just in onder to catch errors) MathGamma etc then automatically 
will trigger the default font to be used (other approached would demand 
more definitions at the user end and/or a more low level 
implementation); the only optimization i can imagine is more clever 
sharing of the default font but as in other cases one expects the 
default to be properly scaled it not that simple; after all, users also 
expect proper error recovery (and in many cases missing some specific 
fonts is no real problem until it's used); so, you can hardly blame 
context for the fact that xetex has a certain logix on locating fonts 
that happens to be not that good a match for context

The fact that xetex uses this mixture of "" en [] does not help either 
as context uses [] itself so parsing is somewhat complicated (the 
file/name prefix was introduced to circumvent this problem);

Hans

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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Yue Wang]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> Yue Wang wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yue Wang wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> moreover, can you tell me why pdftex load these fonts so fast? (also 6
>>>> families * 3 sizes)
>>>
>>> i don't know; as the same code is used so it must be xetex itself then
>>
>> Then let me tell you why: ConTeXt tries to load lmmono10-regular at
>> least 6 times, failed after two testing, then succeed in the end.
>> However, try to testing whether a loaded font is \nullfont or not is
>> quite slow in XeTeX (Jonathan already mentioned that in
>> \testFontIsAvailable). we should definately avoid that.
>> But why pdftex is so fast? because it does not involve font testing.
>>
>> So why XeTeX is spending 6 seconds aimlessly? since ConTeXt asked it
>> to search for a non-existed font.
>
> well, even locating a font 6 times should be no big deal
>


loading 6 fonts, each fonts will be scanned for 3 times. so there are
18 searching. 12 of them are fc searches, and these are quite slow.

> btw, you can try to change the following into
>
> \def\defaultfontfile{file:lmmono10-regular}
>

After changing like this, XeTeX runs like a blink. (It wasted 6
seconds for each compile. now it won't)

> but even then ... if that one is used then there is something else going on
> so best find out what happens ... in context we can have 4 extra math
> families and in most cases only two are used (MathAlpha and MathBeta) while
> (just in onder to catch errors) MathGamma etc then automatically will
> trigger the default font to be used (other approached would demand more
> definitions at the user end and/or a more low level implementation); the
> only optimization i can imagine is more clever sharing of the default font
> but as in other cases one expects the default to be properly scaled it not
> that simple; after all, users also expect proper error recovery (and in many
> cases missing some specific fonts is no real problem until it's used); so,
> you can hardly blame context for the fact that xetex has a certain logix on
> locating fonts that happens to be not that good a match for context
>
> The fact that xetex uses this mixture of "" en [] does not help either as
> context uses [] itself so parsing is somewhat complicated (the file/name
> prefix was introduced to circumvent this problem);
>
> Hans
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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Taco Hoekwater]

Yue Wang wrote:
>>
>> \def\defaultfontfile{file:lmmono10-regular}
> 
> After changing like this, XeTeX runs like a blink. (It wasted 6
> seconds for each compile. now it won't)

Does that mean that the near-endless font issues with xetex are
now finally fixed?

Cheers,
Taco


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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Hans Hagen]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> 
> Yue Wang wrote:
>>> \def\defaultfontfile{file:lmmono10-regular}
>> After changing like this, XeTeX runs like a blink. (It wasted 6
>> seconds for each compile. now it won't)
> 
> Does that mean that the near-endless font issues with xetex are
> now finally fixed?

no ... suffix and name lookup remain (but the file: before the fallback 
font saves such name lookups so we disguised the problem)

Hans


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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Yue Wang]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>>
>> Yue Wang wrote:
>>>>
>>>> \def\defaultfontfile{file:lmmono10-regular}
>>>
>>> After changing like this, XeTeX runs like a blink. (It wasted 6
>>> seconds for each compile. now it won't)
>>
>> Does that mean that the near-endless font issues with xetex are
>> now finally fixed?
>
> no ... suffix and name lookup remain (but the file: before the fallback font
> saves such name lookups so we disguised the problem)
>

no.  \definetypeface[foobar][blablabla] \dorecurse{10000}{{hello
{\foobar 你好}}\par}
is still very slow. I will look into that tomorrow.

Other problems are solved (why \setupbodyfont[iwona] is slow, why
\definefont[simsun.ttf] is slow, etc.)

Concerning the suffix problem, I already reported that to Jonathan
Kew. I think he will fix that very soon.

Yue Wang
> Hans
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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Hans Hagen]

Yue Wang wrote:

> loading 6 fonts, each fonts will be scanned for 3 times. so there are
> 18 searching. 12 of them are fc searches, and these are quite slow.

if so, then this fc mechanism is pretty messed up as it's just a hash 
lookup which cna be fast

also, it does not explain why simple plain definitions also have a 
suffix and/or name lookup problem so you'd better make sure that that is 
fixed too (if only because we cannot be sure of users always using 
filenames)

in the meantime i'll add some lookup caching in the xetex specific 
context code (costs a bit of extra hash mem but lets not bother about that)

Hans

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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Hans Hagen]

Yue Wang wrote:

> So why XeTeX is spending 6 seconds aimlessly? since ConTeXt asked it
> to search for a non-existed font.

keep in mind that the font (lmmono10-regular) *is* existing, it's ust 
that xetex cannot find it as it favors names instead of files (and 
praise yourself happy that it's not looking for lmtypewriter10-regular 
as some older tex distributions ship that font).

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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Mojca Miklavec]

2009/5/12 Yue Wang:
> here is the xelatex result given by a chinese user:
>
> \documentclass{minimal}
> \usepackage{xeCJK}
> \setCJKfamilyfont{song}{SimSun}
> \begin{document}
> {hello {\CJKfamily{song}你好}}\par % 10000 lines
> \end{document}
>
> got 209 pages, three seconds to run.
> note he is switching  families 20000 times. (\family{foo} in latex ==
> \switchbodyfont[foo] in context)

I didn't test that, but I suspect that one thing could make an
enormous time difference if you switch the font 10.000 times.

I suspect that what LaTeX does is something similar to the following
(in ConTeXt slang):

\starttypescript[cjk] [zhfont]
 \definefontsynonym [CJK]           [file:SimSun]
 \definefontsynonym [CJKBold]       [file:SimSun] % you could
artificially embolden the font
 \definefontsynonym [CJKItalic]     [file:SimSun] % you could
artificially slant the font
 \definefontsynonym [CJKBoldItalic] [file:SimSun]
\stoptypescript


\definetypeface [myzhfont] [rm] [serif] [latin-modern] [default]
\definetypeface [myzhfont] [ss] [sans] [latin-modern] [default]
\definetypeface [myzhfont] [tt] [mono] [latin-modern] [default]
\definetypeface [myzhfont] [cjk] [cjk] [zhfont] [default]

\dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\cjk 你好 \it 你好}}

In a similar way ConTeXt supports handwriting/calligraphy families
(\hw, \cg I think; well, maybe you could even pretend that you are
defining the "calligraphy font" to start with, as that one is already
defined where it needs to be defined). If you manage to make the
proposal above to run, this will save you the need for switching the
whole typeface ten thousands of times and should become really fast
(hopefully).

Mojca
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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:59, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
> I suspect that what LaTeX does is something similar to the following
> (in ConTeXt slang):
>
> \starttypescript[cjk] [zhfont]
>  \definefontsynonym [CJK]           [file:SimSun]
>  \definefontsynonym [CJKBold]       [file:SimSun] % you could
> artificially embolden the font
>  \definefontsynonym [CJKItalic]     [file:SimSun] % you could
> artificially slant the font
>  \definefontsynonym [CJKBoldItalic] [file:SimSun]
> \stoptypescript
>
>
> \definetypeface [myzhfont] [rm] [serif] [latin-modern] [default]
> \definetypeface [myzhfont] [ss] [sans] [latin-modern] [default]
> \definetypeface [myzhfont] [tt] [mono] [latin-modern] [default]
> \definetypeface [myzhfont] [cjk] [cjk] [zhfont] [default]
>
> \dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\cjk 你好 \it 你好}}
>
> In a similar way ConTeXt supports handwriting/calligraphy families
> (\hw, \cg I think; well, maybe you could even pretend that you are
> defining the "calligraphy font" to start with, as that one is already
> defined where it needs to be defined). If you manage to make the
> proposal above to run, this will save you the need for switching the
> whole typeface ten thousands of times and should become really fast
> (hopefully).

I tested the following, but you should compare the timing on your
machine (it's a different processor and a different font):

\starttypescript[calligraphy] [song]
	\definefontsynonym [AdobeSong] [file:AdobeSongStd-Light]
\stoptypescript
\starttypescript[calligraphy] [song] [name]
	\definefontsynonym [Calligraphy] [AdobeSong]
\stoptypescript
\starttypescript[zhfont]
	\definetypeface [zhfont] [rm] [serif]       [modern] [default]
	\definetypeface [zhfont] [ss] [sans]        [modern] [default]
	\definetypeface [zhfont] [tt] [mono]        [modern] [default]
	\definetypeface [zhfont] [cg] [calligraphy] [song]   [default]
\stoptypescript

\usetypescript[zhfont]
\setupbodyfont[zhfont,10pt]

\font\ccg="[AdobeSongStd-Light]"

\starttext
% test 1: takes 12 seconds
\dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\cg 你好}}
% test 2: takes 9 seconds
\dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\ccg 你好}}
\stoptext

Switching the whole typescript (\def\ccg{\zhfont} and running the
second test) took 123 seconds eating 100% of processor time.

So maybe that's the way to go, just define a calligraphy-like constant
for cjk family that will enable switching to bold/italic as well (an
equivalent to rm/ss/tt)?

Mojca
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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Hans Hagen]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> \starttext
> % test 1: takes 12 seconds
> \dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\cg 你好}}
> % test 2: takes 9 seconds
> \dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\ccg 你好}}
> \stoptext
> 
> Switching the whole typescript (\def\ccg{\zhfont} and running the
> second test) took 123 seconds eating 100% of processor time.

% test 1: takes 12 seconds
\dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\cg 你好}}

8 sec on my machine

% test 2: takes 9 seconds
% \dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\ccg 你好}}

6 sec on my machine

now, say that 10K switches represent 250 pages (some 40 per page which 
is already quite a lot for *full switches*) then we're talking of 0.01 
sec per page for this, which is kind of neglectable compared to the rest 
of the typesetting

also, mkiv takes less than 6 sec for the test and there we can use 
fallbacks and as such less switches (of the runtime, 3 sec is font 
loading which is due to the fact that for some reason my machine/vista 
does 300K page faults per big font, something that will not happen on 
more modern machines or on linux)

Hans

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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Hans Hagen]

Hi Mojca

let me show you a neat trick ... just as distraction of your thesis work 
...

\starttypescript[serif] [modern]
   \definefontsynonym [Whatever] [file:AdobeSongStd-Light]
\stoptypescript
\starttypescript[zhfont]
   \definetypeface [zhfont] [rm] [serif] [modern] [default]
\stoptypescript

\definebodyfont [default] [rm] [wh=Whatever sa 1]

\edef\fontalternativetextlist{\fontalternativetextlist,wh}

% no chinese in math anyway
%
% \let\whfam\nnfam
%
% \appendtoks
%   \dosettextfamily\c!wh
% \to \textstrategies

\usetypescript[zhfont] \setupbodyfont[zhfont,10pt]

\starttext

\dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\wh 你好}}

\tfd \dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\wh 你好}}

\stoptext

this works because the low level system is not frozen but extensible by 
design (or a feature); of course, the more such extra alternatives we 
define by default (which we therefore don't) the slower slovenian 
typesetting becomes when again we do a full bodyfont switch -)

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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 13.05.2009 um 10:59 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:

> \definetypeface [myzhfont] [rm] [serif] [latin-modern] [default]
> \definetypeface [myzhfont] [ss] [sans] [latin-modern] [default]
> \definetypeface [myzhfont] [tt] [mono] [latin-modern] [default]
> \definetypeface [myzhfont] [cjk] [cjk] [zhfont] [default]
>
> \dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\cjk 你好 \it 你好}}


How should this work when you switch from serif to sans, e.g.:

\rm hello {\cjk 你好 \it 你好} \ss hello {\cjk 你好 \it 你好}

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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:02, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
> Am 13.05.2009 um 10:59 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
>
>> \definetypeface [myzhfont] [rm] [serif] [latin-modern] [default]
>> \definetypeface [myzhfont] [ss] [sans] [latin-modern] [default]
>> \definetypeface [myzhfont] [tt] [mono] [latin-modern] [default]
>> \definetypeface [myzhfont] [cjk] [cjk] [zhfont] [default]
>>
>> \dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\cjk 你好 \it 你好}}
>
> How should this work when you switch from serif to sans, e.g.:
>
> \rm hello {\cjk 你好 \it 你好} \ss hello {\cjk 你好 \it 你好}

In the same way as
   \rm hello {\tt 你好 \it 你好} \ss hello {\tt 你好 \it 你好}
if tt was a family containing those Chinese characters, so:
   \rm roman {\cjk Chinese \it Italic Chinese} \ss sans {\cjk (same)
Chinese (as before) \it Italic Chinese}

Or do you want to suggest that one would possibly need both "serif"
and "sans" variants of some Chinese font, often switching between
families inside a document?

Mojca
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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 13.05.2009 um 12:17 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:

> Or do you want to suggest that one would possibly need both "serif"
> and "sans" variants of some Chinese font, often switching between
> families inside a document?

That's what I mean, also in chinese you use different fonts for
serif, sans and mono.

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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:41, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
> Am 13.05.2009 um 12:17 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
>
>> Or do you want to suggest that one would possibly need both "serif"
>> and "sans" variants of some Chinese font, often switching between
>> families inside a document?
>
> That's what I mean, also in chinese you use different fonts for
> serif, sans and mono.

Wait a minute ... why do they need mono/typewriter? Aren't all the
Chinese glyphs "fixed width" anyway?

Also, if one has a well-designed font that includes all the latin
glyphs and all the bold/italic variants then one should in principle
not need an extra "latin" family, but those are probably just nice
dreams ... I always had the impression that there are not many
high-quality Chinese fonts and that having bold and italic alone is a
problem, not to speak about frequent mixing of several different
families.

(Just thinking alound: aren't there plenty of books around that also
mix lots of greek and latin, possibly using different fonts for them?
How do they deal with the problem, or is the problem just
neglectable?)

Mojca
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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 13.05.2009 um 13:12 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:

> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:41, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>
>> Am 13.05.2009 um 12:17 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
>>
>>> Or do you want to suggest that one would possibly need both "serif"
>>> and "sans" variants of some Chinese font, often switching between
>>> families inside a document?
>>
>> That's what I mean, also in chinese you use different fonts for
>> serif, sans and mono.
>
> Wait a minute ... why do they need mono/typewriter? Aren't all the
> Chinese glyphs "fixed width" anyway?

Do you want code sample in the same font as the result?

With certain features in OT fonts you can enable proportional
chars for punctuation, kana etc.

> Also, if one has a well-designed font that includes all the latin
> glyphs and all the bold/italic variants then one should in principle
> not need an extra "latin" family, but those are probably just nice
> dreams ... I always had the impression that there are not many
> high-quality Chinese fonts and that having bold and italic alone is a
> problem, not to speak about frequent mixing of several different
> families.

The latin glyphs in many free fonts are even worse than Comic Sans :(

Adobe fills the latin ranges with glyphs from other fonts with different
quality but they have lots of features, e.g. ital to enable italics :)

> (Just thinking alound: aren't there plenty of books around that also
> mix lots of greek and latin, possibly using different fonts for them?
> How do they deal with the problem, or is the problem just
> neglectable?)

Dunno, AFAIR Thomas use switch to a different font in his greek module,
in mkiv this is trivia with font fallbacks.

Wolfgang

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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

On May 13, 2009, at 1:28 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

>> (Just thinking alound: aren't there plenty of books around that also
>> mix lots of greek and latin, possibly using different fonts for them?
>> How do they deal with the problem, or is the problem just
>> neglectable?)
>
> Dunno, AFAIR Thomas use switch to a different font in his greek  
> module,
> in mkiv this is trivia with font fallbacks.
>
> Wolfgang

Just FYI: yes, I do use switchtobodyfont in my Greek module, but I  
have more or less given up on XeTeX, so I've never encountered the  
problem. The font fallback is great for filling in some glyphs, but I  
haven't yet used it for entire Greek passages; haven't yet seen the  
advantage over switching the bodyfont.

All best

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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Yue Wang]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Mojca Miklavec
<mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:41, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>
>> Am 13.05.2009 um 12:17 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
>>
>>> Or do you want to suggest that one would possibly need both "serif"
>>> and "sans" variants of some Chinese font, often switching between
>>> families inside a document?
>>
>> That's what I mean, also in chinese you use different fonts for
>> serif, sans and mono.
>
> Wait a minute ... why do they need mono/typewriter? Aren't all the
> Chinese glyphs "fixed width" anyway?


We do not need mono. We do not even need italic, bold italic, and small caps.
ConTeXt/LaTeX's naming scheme just follow traditional latin way, and
that's pretty different compared to Asian scripts.
(of course, some of them are similar. for example,  Song is like roman
regular, CuSong is like roman bold. LiShu is like calligraphy,
Dengxian is like Sans. CuDengXian (Hei) is like Sans bold).
But why do we define them all as latin typefaces? that's just because
we should follow traditional ConTeXt or LaTeX way, since the whole
ConTeXt or LaTeX system is heavily based on their own font naming
mechanism. You can grep the ConTeXt source code, and find font
switching like \it, \rm, \ss appears on almost every file. If we
insist on our own naming mechanism (like \song, \hei, \cusong), then
ConTeXt will become unusable in the end.
Moreover, the only way to write consist document in both latin and cjk
language is to fall cjk fonts into latin system. Suppose you want to
define a document chapter title font, neither \heid  nor \bfd  will
suffice. The only way is to map all chinese font names (hei, song, for
example) to latin names(bold italic, for example) [since latin names
can be treat as a super set of asian names], or design a more
comprehensive naming system, and later mapping both into that.
Then return to your question. what happens if mono is not defined?
well. when you want to write a web link or source code that contains
Chinese like
\type{http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/字体}
or
\starttyping
if (filename == NIL){
   printf("文件%s未找到\n", filename);
   return -1;
}
\stoptyping
you will run into problems since mono for Chinese are not defined.

>
> Also, if one has a well-designed font that includes all the latin
> glyphs and all the bold/italic variants then one should in principle
> not need an extra "latin" family, but those are probably just nice
> dreams ... I always had the impression that there are not many
> high-quality Chinese fonts and that having bold and italic alone is a
> problem, not to speak about frequent mixing of several different
> families.
>

Chinese fonts released in recent years have better latin glyphs
design. But as I said before, the Chinese script system is quite
different from the Latin one. Chinese companies are not obliged to
include "italic" or "small caps" glyphs in their Chinese fonts, just
like we cannot ask Adobe to include "kai" and "song" styles in their
Minion Pro fonts.

> (Just thinking alound: aren't there plenty of books around that also
> mix lots of greek and latin, possibly using different fonts for them?
> How do they deal with the problem, or is the problem just
> neglectable?)
>


Compound typeface is a very basic feature required for all typesetting
software.
Quark and InDesign have options to enable this feature.
This is even possible in no-production-purpose software like Microsoft Word.

But as far as I know, most typographic software programs are WYSIWYG
systems, and rendering a page in computer is much faster than typing a
word by human beings. So we will not notice the performance problem in
these systems. But for TeX this is different, in order to see the
result after positioning something to the right place, or changing a
few words, several compile->view->adjust->compile->view->adjust
procedures will be involved. So the long compilation time will make
the software unusable (Imagine that you want to correct a minor error
in a document and see the result, you press the typeset button in
TeXWorks, leave the lualatex program running, and during the 5 minutes
compilation time, you can have a cup of tea and enjoy the sunshine...
Anyway, t-zhspacing is much faster than lualatex. but 1 minutes to
compile a 100 pages document is still too long)

But one thing is always puzzling me: When open MS Word, it consumes
16MB memory, then I typeset Chinese text in 10 different Chinese fonts
(all are 10M+ each), word only consumes 30MB memory. If I do that in
LuaTeX it will consume almost 1G memory... why MS Word parses fonts
and renders text so fast while consumes such less memory? Can TeX do
that too?


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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Hans Hagen]

Yue Wang wrote:

> the software unusable (Imagine that you want to correct a minor error
> in a document and see the result, you press the typeset button in
> TeXWorks, leave the lualatex program running, and during the 5 minutes

it depends on usage:

if you want wysiwyg you should use a desk top publishing program or a
word processor

if you type an occasional letter or whatever small document, use a word
processor

if you do automated typesetting, you can use tex

if you make very large and complex docs, you can use tex

if you focus on writing and occasionally need to see  the output (simply
because you trust the system to be able to deal with it) you can also
use tex

> compilation time, you can have a cup of tea and enjoy the sunshine...
> Anyway, t-zhspacing is much faster than lualatex. but 1 minutes to
> compile a 100 pages document is still too long)

it all depends on what you use and want to achieve; also lualatex is not
relevant when we discuss for instance context mkiv which follows
different routes

(btw, mk.pdf takes some 55 seconds for a 300+ page document and that's
10 seconds for page faulting so on another machine it runs faster; and
mk uses a lot of large fonts + some demanding typesetting like arabic)

> But one thing is always puzzling me: When open MS Word, it consumes
> 16MB memory, then I typeset Chinese text in 10 different Chinese fonts
> (all are 10M+ each), word only consumes 30MB memory. If I do that in
> LuaTeX it will consume almost 1G memory... why MS Word parses fonts
> and renders text so fast while consumes such less memory? Can TeX do
> that too?

word will use shared libs so you don't see all mem used; if a file on
disk is 10 meg and you use several of them, i'm pretty sure that such a
font unpacked takes some mem somewhere; also, the renderer is embedded
in the operating system; in mkiv we maintain a table representation and
since fonts hame many subtables it takes mem

also, if word renders fast and efficient and does the job right, you
don't need tex at all -)

Hans


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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 13.05.2009 um 14:59 schrieb Hans Hagen:

> Yue Wang wrote:
>
>> compilation time, you can have a cup of tea and enjoy the sunshine...
>> Anyway, t-zhspacing is much faster than lualatex. but 1 minutes to
>> compile a 100 pages document is still too long)
>
> it all depends on what you use and want to achieve; also lualatex is  
> not
> relevant when we discuss for instance context mkiv which follows
> different routes
>
> (btw, mk.pdf takes some 55 seconds for a 300+ page document and that's
> 10 seconds for page faulting so on another machine it runs faster; and
> mk uses a lot of large fonts + some demanding typesetting like arabic)

1 min for 100 pages is very slow, I have a japanese/german book which
takes about 1 min for 600 pages, the slowest part is a very huge natural
table (over 700 cells) where ConTeXt needs about 1 second.

Wolfgang

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Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 12.05.2009 um 11:09 schrieb Yue Wang:

> Hi,
>
> Sum up:
> define a font usng typescripts takes 64.797 seconds.


You can speed it up when you replace \definetypeface (...) with  
\definefont:

\unprotect

\definefontsynonym [ZhSerif]           [name:AdobeSongStd-Light]        
\definefont [ZhSerifRegular]    [ZhSerif]
\definefontsynonym [ZhSerifBold]       [name:AdobeHeitiStd-Regular]     
\definefont [ZhSerifBold]       [ZhSerifBold]
\definefontsynonym [ZhSerifItalic]     [name:AdobeKaitiStd-Regular]     
\definefont [ZhSerifItalic]     [ZhSerifItalic]
\definefontsynonym [ZhSerifBoldItalic] [name:AdobeHeitiStd-Regular]     
\definefont [ZhSerifBoldItalic] [ZhSerifBoldItalic]

\definefontsynonym [ZhSans]            [name:AdobeKaitiStd-Regular]     
\definefont [ZhSansRegular]     [ZhSans]
\definefontsynonym [ZhSansBold]        [name:AdobeHeitiStd-Regular]     
\definefont [ZhSansBold]        [ZhSansBold]
\definefontsynonym [ZhSansItalic]      [name:AdobeKaitiStd-Regular]     
\definefont [ZhSansItalic]      [ZhSansItalic]
\definefontsynonym [ZhSansBoldItalic]  [name:AdobeHeitiStd-Regular]     
\definefont [ZhSansBoldItalic]  [ZhSansBoldItalic]

\definefontsynonym [ZhMono]            [name:AdobeFangsongStd-Regular]  
\definefont [ZhMonoRegular]     [ZhMono]
\definefontsynonym [ZhMonoBold]        [name:AdobeHeitiStd-Regular]     
\definefont [ZhMonoBold]        [ZhMonoBold]
\definefontsynonym [ZhMonoItalic]      [name:AdobeFangsongStd-Regular]  
\definefont [ZhMonoItalic]      [ZhMonoItalic]
\definefontsynonym [ZhMonoBoldItalic]  [name:AdobeHeitiStd-Regular]     
\definefont [ZhMonoBoldItalic]  [ZhMonoBoldItalic]

\def\domyzhfont{\getvalue{Zh\fontstringA\fontstylesuffix}}

%\def\myzhfont{\groupedcommand{\pushcurrentfont\domyzhfont} 
{\popcurrentfont}}
\def\myzhfont{\domyzhfont}

\protect

\starttext

\rm\tf hello {\myzhfont 你好} world\par
\rm\it hello {\myzhfont 你好} world\par
\rm\bf hello {\myzhfont 你好} world\par
\rm\bi hello {\myzhfont 你好} world\par

\blank

\ss\tf hello {\myzhfont 你好} world\par
\ss\it hello {\myzhfont 你好} world\par
\ss\bf hello {\myzhfont 你好} world\par
\ss\bi hello {\myzhfont 你好} world\par

\blank

\tt\tf hello {\myzhfont 你好} world\par
\tt\it hello {\myzhfont 你好} world\par
\tt\bf hello {\myzhfont 你好} world\par
\tt\bi hello {\myzhfont 你好} world\par

\page

\dorecurse{1000}{\dorecurse{10}{ hello {\myzhfont 你好}}\par}

\stoptext

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