From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: distributed / parallel TeX?
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:06:12 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0812161000230.5000@nqv-yncgbc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49476FDB.80309@wxs.nl>
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Lars Huttar wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> We've been using TeX to typeset a 1200-page book, and at that size, the
>> time it takes to run becomes a big issue (especially with multiple
>> passes... about 8 on average). It takes us anywhere from 80 minutes on
>> our fastest machine, to 9 hours on our slowest laptop.
>
> often there are ways to optimize the document style
In Latex, there is a package called mylatex, which allows you to create a
format consisting of your preamble. Then you can call latex with your own
format and this speeds up things.
This approach did not provide a significant speed improvement in latex for
me, and I don't know whether it will do so in context. Hans and Taco, do
you think that creating a personal format and possibly also dumping some
font related info could provide a tradeoff between processing speed and
disk space?
Aditya
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-15 23:06 Lars Huttar
2008-12-16 8:08 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-12-16 18:13 ` Lars Huttar
2008-12-16 21:31 ` Martin Schröder
2008-12-16 22:10 ` Lars Huttar
2008-12-16 22:17 ` Martin Schröder
2008-12-17 8:47 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-12-16 21:15 ` luigi scarso
2008-12-16 23:02 ` Lars Huttar
2008-12-17 8:22 ` Hans Hagen
2008-12-17 8:53 ` luigi scarso
2008-12-17 13:50 ` Lars Huttar
2008-12-16 9:07 ` Hans Hagen
2008-12-16 15:06 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2008-12-16 15:53 ` Hans Hagen
2008-12-16 17:25 ` Lars Huttar
2008-12-16 17:37 ` Hans Hagen
2008-12-16 19:28 ` Lars Huttar
2008-12-17 2:57 ` Yue Wang
2008-12-23 3:48 ` error when using uniqueMPgraphics Lars Huttar
2008-12-23 5:33 ` Lars Huttar
2008-12-23 7:30 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-12-16 18:40 ` distributed / parallel TeX? Mojca Miklavec
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