[luatex] luatex's pause

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Sun Apr 5 23:10:20 CEST 2009


Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 5 April 2009 Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> 
> Sorry, I have to correct this:
> 
>  > I then ran it through strace.  It indeed takes much more time to load
>  > the pdflualatex format file than the others.  There is actually no
>  > pause.  After the format file is opened and LaTeX banner appears,
>  > there are many "read" system calls.  
> 
> I meant: After the format file is opened and *before* the LaTeX banner
> appears... 

the luatex format is gzipped so this is probably a side effect of a 
smaller buffer size

Hans


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