[OS X TeX] Optimal Solution for an asymptotemk engine

[Berend Hasselman]

On 11-04-2010, at 02:48, Herbert Schulz wrote:

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> On Apr 10, 2010, at 5:45 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
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>> Am 10.04.2010 um 08:24 schrieb Jean-Claude DE SOZA:
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>>> Going in the Console, I noticed many crashes of kpsewhich and pdftex each time Asymptote runs
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>> I checked all the open windows from CrashReporter and these crashing programmes are from TeX Live 2009! I'll try to investigate this case the next days!
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>> BTW, my first self-compiled asy seems to be faster by the order of *some* magnitudes!
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>> --
>> Greetings
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>> Pete
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>> Theory and practice are the same, in theory, but, in practice, they are different.
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> Howdy,
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> I saw one crash of kpsewhich and multiple pdftex crashes in my Logs directory. Enclosed is one some Console Log output and one of the pdftex crash logs.
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> <asy problems.zip>
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> Yes... why is asy doing anything with pdftex?
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Same thing here.
I see these pdftex crashes too when running the asymptotemk engine.
I have MacTeX 2009 and no separate asy.

Good hunting .....

Berend