Re: long texexec run

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 09:09 PM 10/10/2001 +0200, Karsten Hachmeister wrote:
>Hi,
>
> > How fast is your machine ?
>
>I am using a 700MHz Pentium III here. I reinstalled now an old version of
>miktex because of some other problems, but now I can give you some times:
>on the older miktex version the texexec run needed about 10 - 14 sec and
>with the new version I needed 66 - 68 sec for one texexec run.
>
>Another problem is that when I use TeXnicCenter to create my documents I get
>the error: texexec.ini not found
>The file exists and from the command line I can use the texexec command.
>This might be an error in TeXnicCenter, but with the older MiKTeX version I
>have no problems.

The number of pages per second depends on the complexity of the page. 
Documents with many menus (screen docs) and backgrounds that change per 
page take more time.

on my 1 gig laptop:

172 page mathml   manual (many buffers, color, xml included)    : 36 sec
  37 page examlpe  manual (xml, color, backgrounds, menus)       : 18 sec 
(13 sec in automp mode)
  76 page mathml   manual typeset as verbatim listing            :  5 sec
  75 page show-pre manual (372 pdf images+2 mp runs+fancy stuff) : 20 sec 
(18 sec in batch mode)

so, i think that there is something wrong with your setup. since 
texexec.ini cannot be found (you can try texexec --verbose to get more 
info) it looks like a file search problem.

Hans
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