[OS X TeX] Timing

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 22 févr. 06 à 17:34, George Gratzer a écrit :

> Do you remember when Textures was in beta, and it took about a  
> minute to typeset one page? Of course, the Macs then were very slow.

No, I jumped into the TeX "business" later, in late 1991, with  
Textures 1.2 (license #4093). I have the floppies and box set under  
my eyes right now, together with the delightful December 1998  
Textures User's Guide with specially commissioned illustrations by  
Duane Bibby featuring a Mac computer instead of the generic terminal  
in the illustrations from the TeXbook and LaTeX: A Document  
Preparation System.

Still, I remember at that time typesetting a plain TeX document of  
about 40 pages on a Mac Classic, with Textures. Typesetting took  
several minutes, and then when Textures was displaying the preview  
afterwards I could see each line forming individually on the screen.

Now, with the same document:

legimc11:~/Desktop/Annexe brunovoisin$ time tex Confinement.tex
This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.5)
(./Confinement.tex [-1] [-2] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]  
[11]
[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25]  
[26]
[27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40]  
[41]
[42] )
(see the transcript file for additional information)
Output written on Confinement.dvi (44 pages, 169620 bytes).
Transcript written on Confinement.log.

real    0m0.954s
user    0m0.340s
sys     0m0.059s

Oh well!

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