On Fri, 25 Oct 2013, Hans Hagen wrote:

> On 10/25/2013 7:01 AM, Schmitz Thomas A. wrote:
>> 
>> On 24 Oct 2013, at 16:44, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> You need to set it to a dummy directory! See: 
>>> http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/136073/323
>> 
>> No, even that doesn’t help:
>> 
>> echo $OSFONTDIR
>> /tmp/dummy
>> 
>> and then on a first run (after regnerating the format with this variable 
>> set), I get lines such as
>> 
>> fonts           > names > 'OSFONTDIR' specifies path 
>> '/Users/tas/Library/Fonts'
>> fonts           > names > 'OSFONTDIR' specifies path '/Library/Fonts'
>> fonts           > names > 'OSFONTDIR' specifies path 
>> '/System/Library/Fonts'
>> fonts           > names > globbing path '/System/Library/Fonts/**.OTF'
>> fonts           > names > 68 system files identified, 2 skipped, 2 
>> duplicates, 66 hash entries added, runtime 43.223 seconds
>> 
>> So something appears to be overriding the variable that I set. But what? 
>> And why? And how do I stop it?
>> 
>> On 24 Oct 2013, at 23:40, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>> 
>>> I don't understand the speed issue. We're talking about relatively few 
>>> fonts only and context will not scan them unless there is a change. After 
>>> a remake a rescan takes < 9 sec on my laptop and < 6 sec once the 
>>> directories have been cached (windows 8 / 64 bit / i7 / ssd).
>>> 
>>> Only an initial full scan takes a while (deleted cache), but that's mostly 
>>> because I have a pretty large font collection in my texmf-fonts tree.
>> 
>> You’re right of course that it’s only the initial run when a new font cache 
>> has to be built, but the time I get on os x is much longer than what you 
>> report:
>> 
>> with rescanning of system fonts:
>> system          | total runtime: 114.131 (yes, that’s almost 2 minutes!)
>> 
>> And I don’t want to twiddle my thumbs for two minutes, and don’t want to 
>> use those “system fonts” (or if I want to use them, I will copy them to my 
>> texmf directories)!
>
> hm, i wonder why that takes so long as i get:
>
> tex tree:
>
> 561 tree files identified,    5 skipped,  5 duplicates, 556 hash entries 
> added, runtime 14.282 seconds
> 426 tree files identified,    7 skipped,  5 duplicates, 419 hash entries 
> added, runtime 12.297 seconds
>  8 tree files identified,    0 skipped,  0 duplicates,   8 hash entries 
> added, runtime  0.188 seconds
>  0 tree files identified,    0 skipped,  0 duplicates,   0 hash entries 
> added, runtime  0.156 seconds
> 677 tree files identified,    1 skipped,  1 duplicates, 676 hash entries 
> added, runtime  0.672 seconds
>
> system:
>
>  2 system files identified,  0 skipped,  0 duplicates,   2 hash entries 
> added, runtime  0.047 seconds
> 437 system files identified, 57 skipped, 57 duplicates, 380 hash entries 
> added, runtime 20.001 seconds
> 20 system files identified,  1 skipped,  1 duplicates,  19 hash entries 
> added, runtime  0.063 seconds
>  0 system files identified,  0 skipped,  0 duplicates,   0 hash entries 
> added, runtime  0.031 seconds
>  0 system files identified,  0 skipped,  0 duplicates,   0 hash entries 
> added, runtime  0.047 seconds

That is similar to what I get (regular hard drive, no SSD)

mtxrun --script fonts --reload --force | grep time

fonts           | names | 757 tree files identified, 245 skipped, 244 
duplicates, 512 hash entries added, runtime 7.720 seconds
fonts           | names | 224 tree files identified, 60 skipped, 48 
duplicates, 164 hash entries added, runtime 3.052 seconds
fonts           | names | 2 tree files identified, 1 skipped, 1 
duplicates, 1 hash entries added, runtime 0.404 seconds
fonts           | names | 0 tree files identified, 0 skipped, 0 
duplicates, 0 hash entries added, runtime 0.406 seconds
fonts           | names | 1503 tree files identified, 210 skipped, 113 
duplicates, 1293 hash entries added, runtime 1.034 seconds

fonts           | names | 50 system files identified, 14 skipped, 14 
duplicates, 36 hash entries added, runtime 4.429 seconds
fonts           | names | 126 system files identified, 21 skipped, 21 
duplicates, 105 hash entries added, runtime 0.548 seconds
fonts           | names | 0 system files identified, 0 skipped, 0 
duplicates, 0 hash entries added, runtime 0.005 seconds
fonts           | names | 0 system files identified, 0 skipped, 0 
duplicates, 0 hash entries added, runtime 0.005 seconds
fonts           | names | 35 system files identified, 0 skipped, 0 
duplicates, 35 hash entries added, runtime 0.007 seconds

fonts           | names | total scan time 39.783 seconds

Aditya