[luatex] luatex's pause

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 01:16:01PM +1000, ?????? ?????????? wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 03:21:56AM +0200, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> >
> > > What I absolutely don't understand is why pdfluatex and pdflualatex
> > > behave so different.
> >
> > The problem are the hyphenation patterns:
> >
> > Decompressed file sizes (gunzip):
> >
> >  a) pdfluatex.fmt:   1857724 (hyphen.tex)             --> fast
> >  b) pdflualatex.fmt: 7589629 (language.dat of TL2008) --> pause
> >  c) pdflualatex.fmt: 1627382 (empty language.dat)     --> fast
> >
> > Hyphenation patterns:
> >  a)  1
> >  b) 54
> >  c)  0
> >
> >
> xelatex.fmt is super-fast and it does not cause any pause at all.  So I
> think xelatex.ftm loades the language.dat as well. Please correct me if I am
> mistaken.

The file 'language.dat' is a configuration file that controls
which and especially how many pattern are loaded. I doubt that
XeTeX handles pattern the same way as LuaTeX.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>