The only change I made was that I started using a 9pt modern font than a 10
pt modern font.

My document decreased from 580+ pages to 500 pages after that.

About your document, I assume you had a lot of Graphics because text only
180MB is too high.
I have only few diagrams and my file size is only 3MB.

On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 2:13 AM Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 2/17/2024 6:17 PM, Shiv Shankar Dayal wrote:
> > Thanks for new upload. I see that memory consumption is much less than
> > previous version. So
> > once again, thanks a lot.
> >
> > I am curious about what has changed in recent upload, that memory
> > consumption is about 60% of earlier versions.
> it's hard to tell what exact consumpiton is becaue for instance when lua
> creates tables, they grow by factors two when then have to (maybe 5.5 is
> a bit less consuming)
>
> on the one hand luametatex is more efficient than luatex due to all kind
> of ímprovements' but some nodes are larger so that takes more memory,
> which is only noticed when one has lots of text on a page (or keeps
> boxes stuff around)
>
> anyway, not that much changed since the previous upload, so maybe you
> just stay below a threshold
>
> I recently generated a 180MB document with 2500 fonts + metapost
> outlines of them and that could bump mem usage (with empty cache) to 30
> GB (less after fonts were cached) but normally we stay around 125 MB for
> a document. Anyway, tex mem consumption can often be neglected compared
> to other applications.
>
> Hans
>
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Respect,
Shiv Shankar Dayal