[NTG-context] Re: Memory consumption in new upload

[Shiv Shankar Dayal <shivshankar.dayal@gmail.com>]

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I assume you would have created typescripts for those fonts. Can you please
add them to
ConTeXt distribution, at least for the popular fonts?

On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 3:12 AM Shiv Shankar Dayal <
shivshankar.dayal@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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Respect,
Shiv Shankar Dayal

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