[OS X TeX] Textures Announcement

[Jonathan Kew]

On 10 Mar 2006, at 4:24 pm, Gary L. Gray wrote:
>
> On a 2.16 GHz MacBook Pro, I get:
>
> loon:~/Desktop gray$ time tex texbook.tex
> This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.5)
> [...snip...]
> Output written on texbook.dvi (494 pages, 2030580 bytes).
> Transcript written on texbook.log.
>
> real    0m1.514s
> user    0m1.399s
> sys     0m0.087s
>
> So, I am assuming that to compare this with the numbers presented  
> on Blue Sky's web page, I should add the three times above to get  
> 3.000s -- is this correct?

It's not clear which number BSR is referring to, but you certainly  
don't want to add them. Either go by "real", which is the actual  
elapsed time (and therefore depends heavily on what else your machine  
might be busy with at the time--I assume it wasn't running much else  
in the background!), or else add the other two times (which represent  
actual CPU time used).

Either way, it looks pretty usable. :)

JK

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