[luatex] luatex's pause

[Hans Hagen]

Reinhard Kotucha wrote:

> I'm not sure that it's a TeX Live issue.
> 
> $ time pdflatex \\stop
> real    0m0.098s
> user    0m0.080s
> sys     0m0.016s
> 
> $ time pdflualatex \\stop
> real    0m2.329s
> user    0m2.192s
> sys     0m0.132s
> 
> I tried this repeatedly, with similar results.

and how about

luatex --ini plain \dump
move plain.fmt to web2c/luatex
luatex \end

runs pretty fast on my machine

> The pause occurs after luatex writes the banner to screen and before
> anything else appears on screen.  The next thing I see after the pause 
> is
> 
>   LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
> 
> which implies that the problem doesn't occur after the format file is
> loaded.  If there is something wrong with search paths in texmf.cnf at
> all, then it's most likely the search path for format files.

maybe something in latex itself?

anyway, texmf.cnf *is* a tex live issue -)

Hans

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