<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>Le 1 juil. 05 à 21:09, Jonathan Kew a écrit :</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>It would be interesting to try restarting OS X, and see if the behavior is the same with a freshly booted system. I just restarted my PowerBook, as it happens, and the ArabJustify example seems to typeset noticeable faster than previously. Timing from Terminal:</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>Kew-PowerBookG4:~/Desktop jonathan$ time xetex ArabJustify</DIV><DIV>This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.94 (Web2C 7.5.3)</DIV><DIV>entering extended mode</DIV><DIV>(./ArabJustify.tex [1] )</DIV><DIV>Output written on ArabJustify.pdf (1 page).</DIV><DIV>Transcript written on ArabJustify.log.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>real 0m1.182s</DIV><DIV>user 0m0.558s</DIV><DIV>sys 0m0.257s</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#006312"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#006312">These two were done in sequence, one after the other, just after restarting:</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#006312"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV> agrenoble-152-1-54-246:~/Desktop brunovoisin$ time xetex ArabJustify.tex</DIV><DIV> This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.94 (Web2C 7.5.3)</DIV><DIV> entering extended mode</DIV><DIV> (./ArabJustify.tex [1] )</DIV><DIV> Output written on ArabJustify.pdf (1 page).</DIV><DIV> Transcript written on ArabJustify.log.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV> real 0m10.622s</DIV><DIV> user 0m0.779s</DIV><DIV> sys 0m0.601s</DIV><DIV> agrenoble-152-1-54-246:~/Desktop brunovoisin$ time xetex ArabJustify.tex</DIV><DIV> This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.94 (Web2C 7.5.3)</DIV><DIV> entering extended mode</DIV><DIV> (./ArabJustify.tex [1] )</DIV><DIV> Output written on ArabJustify.pdf (1 page).</DIV><DIV> Transcript written on ArabJustify.log.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> real 0m1.508s</DIV><DIV> user 0m0.754s</DIV><DIV> sys 0m0.410s</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>And then:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> agrenoble-152-1-54-246:~/Desktop brunovoisin$ time xetex --no-pdf ArabJustify.tex</DIV><DIV> This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.94 (Web2C 7.5.3)</DIV><DIV> entering extended mode</DIV><DIV> (./ArabJustify.tex [1] )</DIV><DIV> Output written on ArabJustify.xdv (1 page, 948 bytes).</DIV><DIV> Transcript written on ArabJustify.log.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV> real 0m1.024s</DIV><DIV> user 0m0.393s</DIV><DIV> sys 0m0.362s</DIV><DIV> agrenoble-152-1-54-246:~/Desktop brunovoisin$ time xdv2pdf ArabJustify.xdv</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV> real 0m0.534s</DIV><DIV> user 0m0.360s</DIV><DIV> sys 0m0.053s</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>All on a 1 GHz PowerBook G4.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Difficult to see any logical pattern here.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Bruno Voisin</DIV></BODY></HTML>