[OS X TeX] Speed of TeX on OSX

[Adam Lindsay]

Hans Hagen said this at Tue, 8 Jun 2004 21:27:58 +0200:

>Adam Lindsay wrote:
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>>TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List said this at Mon, 7 Jun 2004 20:00:01 -0400:
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>>>>>Does anyone have an explanation for this difference in speed?
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>>ConTeXt, in particular, gets pretty bound by the output console. I just
>>ran some tests, and one test file (ran so there was one pdfetex pass
>>only) took:
>> 36 secs in iTeXMac with syntax colouring in the log/console
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>hm, is the whole thing updated each time a line is added or only the 
>window? 15 seonds for just coloring a log sounds straange to me

I think the entire NSTextView is getting updated with the coloured log.
It's the case where I first observed ConTeXt being slow on the Mac. With
all those duplicate mapfile warnings:

   Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/local/TeX/texmf-local/fonts/map/context/
   pl0-ams-cmr.map): entry for `pltt10' already exists, duplicates ignored

...iTM gets progressively slower.
(yeah, yeah, if I just get my mapfiles sorted, things would be nicer)

>> 21 secs in iTeXMac (without colouring, how I usually work, actually)
>> 18 secs in TeXShop
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>ok, so somehow iTeXMac ihas some inefficient color mechanism and checker 
>(maybe syntax check?)

It does do some sophisticated things, with line numbers becoming hyperlinks.

>> 14-18 s in Terminal.app
>> 14 secs in an XTerm, and
>> 11 seconds with stdout redirected to a log file.
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>can you also time SciTE? On windows I find that to be even faster than a 
>5000 line buffer console

Oh right, I forgot:
  21 secs on SciTE Mac/X11 (my dubious build)

>>files. ('texexec --silent', strangely, didn't change anything that I
>>could see.) 
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>try --batch --) 

Oops, yeah, that one. 9 seconds, if you can believe.

adam
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