Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Yue Wang <yuleopen@gmail.com>]

Thank you, Taco.

currently I found one way to speed up font loading:

\synchronizemathfontsfalse
\let\synchronizetext\relax
\starttypescript[serif] [myzhfont]
 \definefontsynonym [Serif]           [file:SimSun]
\stoptypescript
\definetypeface [myzhfont] [rm] [serif][myzhfont]   [default]
\def\a{\myzhfont}
\dorecurse{10000}{{hello {\a 你好}}\par}
\bye

TeXExec | runtime: 10.172
much faster, but still far slower than \definefont.

this reminds me another possible bug in ConTeXt:



Test1:

\definetypeface[iwona][ss][sans] [iwona] [default]
\definetypeface[iwona][mm][math] [iwona] [default][text=ss]
\setupbodyfont[iwona]
\starttext
foobar
\stoptext

runtime= 6.625. There is a 5 seconds pause after loading
(c:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/spec-xet.tex)

But I don't know what xetex is loading.




Test 2:

\definetypeface[iwona][ss][sans] [iwona] [default]
%\definetypeface[iwona][mm][math] [iwona] [default][text=ss]
\setupbodyfont[iwona]
\starttext
foobar
\stoptext

I only comment the math defination line. now
runetime = 0.969




Test 3:

move the three lines to context.rme,
\definetypeface[iwona][ss][sans] [iwona] [default]
\definetypeface[iwona][mm][math] [iwona] [default][text=ss]
\setupbodyfont[iwona]
then rebuild the format.
note we also load the math font. but one thing is clear: Hans said
unlike plain TeX and LaTeX, font tfm is not dumped into ConTeXt
format.
However, at this time we compile
\starttext
foobar
\stoptext

runtime =0.875

I don't know the reason for this problem too....
I think XeTeX load math tfms quite fast. (it should be even faster
than otf loading, but in xecontext, this is not true).


Yue Wang

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hans Hagen wrote:
>> anyway .. i cannot comment on runtimes as xetex on my windows box runs
>> too slow (caching issue) and all examples are slow, no matter how i
>> specify fonts so i will not look into the code till that gets fixed first
>
> The example with the typescript seems logical to me: a typescript does
> much work beforehand, so I assume SimSum is loaded multiple times.
>
> I am trying the AdobeSong example as we speak, there surely seems
> something wrong there.
>
> Best wishes,
> Taco
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