[texhax] Throughput

[Peter Davis]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Peter Davis <pfd at pfdstudio.com> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Martin Schröder <martin at oneiros.de>wrote:
>
>> 2011/3/3 William Adams <will.adams at frycomm.com>:
>> > Have you tried processing it w/o including the graphics?
>>
>> That would be my first guest. Try with the draft option...
>>
>
> (NB: Just replying to texhax, to avoid cross-posting issues I seem to have
> triggered.)
>
> I tried running 200 pages, with and without draft mode.  Specifically, I
> put draft mode on the graphicx package:
>
> \includepackage[draft]{graphicx}
>
> I used the --time-statistics option on the xelatex command to get timings.
>  The results are:
>
> Non-draft:
> gross: 111634 ms, user mode: 17050 ms, kernel mode: 50778 ms, total: 67828
> Draft:
> gross: 77941 ms, user mode: 12589 ms, kernel mode: 27300 ms, total: 39889
>

Now using \newfontfamily *and* [draft]{graphicx} ...

gross execution time: 45458 ms
user mode: 8658 ms, kernel mode: 25006 ms, total: 33664

A definite improvement.  Now to try etex and box registers for the external
graphics.

Thanks!

-pd


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