Re: Can we make font loading much faster?

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

Hi:

> lua garbage collection on xp is somehow quite slow, when i switched to
> vista, the luatex test files (mk) that took forever on xp, ran smoothly
> on vista
OK. Today I got a copy of windows vista, so I installed it on the same
machine, and test the same tex file.

\usetypescript[myfont]
\setupbodyfont[myfont,rm,12pt]
\starttext
汉语 {\bf 汉语} {\tt 汉语}
\stoptext



mkiv lua stats : used config path          - C:/context/tex/texmf/web2c/texmf.cn
f
mkiv lua stats : used cache path           - C:/context/tex/texmf-cache
mkiv lua stats : modules/dumps/instances   - 90/24/1
mkiv lua stats : input load time           - 0.062 seconds
mkiv lua stats : fonts load time           - 5.632 seconds
mkiv lua stats : xml load time             - 0.000 seconds, lpath calls: 0, cach
ed calls: 0
mkiv lua stats : lxml load time            - 0.000 seconds preparation, backrefe
rences: 0
mkiv lua stats : mps conversion time       - 0.000 seconds
mkiv lua stats : node processing time      - 0.000 seconds including kernel
mkiv lua stats : kernel processing time    - 0.000 seconds
mkiv lua stats : attribute processing time - 0.000 seconds
mkiv lua stats : language load time        - 0.031 seconds, n=2
mkiv lua stats : graphics processing time  - 0.000 seconds including tex, n=0
mkiv lua stats : metapost processing time  - 0.000 seconds, loading: 0.000 secon
ds, execution: 0.000 seconds, n: 0
mkiv lua stats : current memory usage      - 499448604 bytes
mkiv lua stats : cleaned up reserved nodes - 19 nodes, 8 lists of 100
mkiv lua stats : node memory usage         - 20 glue_spec, 2 dir
mkiv lua stats : loaded patterns           - us:us:pat:exc:2
mkiv lua stats : loaded fonts              - AdobeHeitiStd-Regular*features=zh,f
allbacks=serifbolditalicwhatever:otf AdobeHeitiStd-Regular*features=zh,fallbacks
=serifboldwhatever:otf AdobeKaitiStd-Regular*features=zh,fallbacks=monowhatever:
otf AdobeKaitiStd-Regular*features=zh,fallbacks=serifitalicwhatever:otf AdobeSon
gStd-Light*features=zh,fallbacks=serifwhatever:otf file:lmroman10-bolditalic*fea
tures=default,:otf file:lmroman10-italic*features=default,:otf file:lmroman12-bo
ld*features=default,:otf file:lmroman12-italic*features=default,:otf file:lmroma
n12-regular*features=default,:otf file:lmroman7-bold*features=default,:otf file:
lmroman7-regular*features=default,:otf file:lmroman9-bold*features=default,:otf
file:lmroman9-italic*features=default,:otf file:lmroman9-regular*features=defaul
t,:otf file:lmromancaps10-regular*features=default,:otf file:lmromanslant10-bold
*features=default,:otf file:lmromanslant10-regular*features=default,:otf file:lm
romanslant12-regular*features=default,:otf file:lmromanslant9-regular*features=d
efault,:otf lmex10:tfm lmmi12:tfm lmmi7:tfm lmmi9:tfm lmmono10-regular:otf lmrom
an10-bold:otf lmroman10-bolditalic:otf lmroman10-italic:otf lmroman10-regular:ot
f lmsy10:tfm lmsy7:tfm lmsy9:tfm msam10:tfm msam7:tfm msbm10:tfm msbm7:tfm rm-lm
r12:tfm rm-lmr7:tfm rm-lmr9:tfm
mkiv lua stats : runtime                   - 59.904 seconds, 1 processed pages,
1 shipped pages, 0.017 pages/second

MtxRun | total runtime: 67.548

well, a bit faster than XP.....

Yue Wang
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