[OS X TeX] Time penalty when using kpsewhich on mac os x?

Adam R. Maxwell amaxwell at mac.com
Sat Oct 11 20:08:21 CEST 2014


> On Oct 11, 2014, at 11:03 , jfbu <jfbu at free.fr> wrote:
> 
> I still get the feeling from Karl Berry's reply quoted in my previous
> mail that 0.5s is somehow unexpected.

I should try running tlmgr on one of my Linux boxes
at work; I'd probably find that stuff that takes
seconds in TLU is instant there :/.

The usual Mac OS bottleneck is the filesystem, and
this doesn't surprise me at all. I might mess around
with profiling it anyway.

Adam




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