Re: Can we make font loading much faster?

["Yue Wang" <yuleopen@gmail.com>]

I usually compose short documents (paper, homework, report etc.) which
usually runs 8-10 pages.
There will be considerable difference between traditional TeX (CJK for
LaTeX, or pdftex MKII using subfonts) and MKIV.
That means, every MKIV Chinese document I compile will spend 10
seconds loading the fonts and extra 5 seconds for compiling the
actual document.

For longer documents (more than 100 pages), I seldom compile them all.
ConTeXt user usually split the book into components. I compiled each
component (usually 10 pages) until I am satisfy in all components,
then I will compile the whole book. So, efficient on small document is
very important.


On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> Yue Wang wrote:
>
>> (Of course, 15.854s runtime is still a bit too long, but that's tolerable)
>
> you should not take a one page document as benchmark, since then there's
> always the dominant overhead of loading fonts and writing resources to
> the pdf file
>
>
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