Re: Why searching fonts in xetex is so slow?

[Yue Wang <yuleopen@gmail.com>]

I see, no font is defined when dumping the formats... pretty unlike plain TeX...
then why so much time is used for iwona, while only 1.2 sec is used to
load lm roman?

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> Yue Wang wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Mojca Miklavec
>> <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 03:44, Yue Wang wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi, Mojca:
>>>>
>>>> However, when comment the second line (\definetypeface [iwona] [mm]
>>>> [math] [iwona] [default] [encoding=ec]),
>>>> TeXExec | runtime: 1.828
>>>> total compile time is reduced to only 2 seconds. (of course, equations
>>>> are typeset in latin modern).
>>>
>>> But LM should suffer from the same problem.
>>>
>>
>> I think LM tfm/otf metrics information are dumped to fmt statically.
>> See the TeX82 source code (don't know xetex's situation, but i am sure
>> tex82 works like that).
>
> context never dumps fonts in the format
>
> Hans
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