From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Performance and fonts issues
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:25:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB87BF7.4030502@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AB7EFF6.3030801@gmail.com>
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote:
> Startup time is 0.531 seconds. OK. Then, why on the Earth all these
> lmxxx fonts are loaded, if I use Minion Pro typescript? 2.7sec... Hmmm.
> Seems like a root of evil. What can I do to get rid of all of them?
those fonts are loaded for math (and only once as fonts are shared)
> My typescript:
> \starttypescript [serif] [MinionPro]
> \definefontsynonym [Serif][MinionPro-Regular.otf][features=default]
> \definefontsynonym [SerifBold][MinionPro-Bold.otf][features=default]
> \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic][MinionPro-It.otf][features=default]
> \definefontsynonym
> [SerifBoldItalic][MinionPro-BoldIt.otf][features=default]
> \stoptypescript
>
> \starttypescript [MinionPro]
> \definetypeface [MinionPro][rm][serif][MinionPro][default]
> \stoptypescript
this takes 2.5 seconds on my machine
\starttext
\usetypescript[palatino] \setupbodyfont[palatino] test\par
\usetypescript[postscript] \setupbodyfont[postscript] test\par
\usetypescript[cambria] \setupbodyfont[cambria] test\par
\stoptext
(there is a way to prevent initial loading but it does not save that
much time)
two cores is less important than a big 2 level cache (influences lua
runtime) and memory (so that files are cached in mem)
Hans
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2009-09-21 21:28 ` Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
2009-09-22 7:25 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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2009-09-22 12:25 ` Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
2009-09-22 15:10 ` Hans Hagen
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