[luatex] LuaLaTeX's performance

[Jonathan Fine]

For what it is worth:

$ time tex '\end'
This is TeX, Version 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2009)
No pages of output.
Transcript written on texput.log.

real	0m0.083s
user	0m0.068s
sys	0m0.008s

$ time xetex '\end'
This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (TeX Live 2009)
entering extended mode
No pages of output.
Transcript written on texput.log.

real	0m0.337s
user	0m0.232s
sys	0m0.104s

$ time luatex '\end'
This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.40.6-2009100509 (TeX Live 2009)
No pages of output.
Transcript written on texput.log.

real	0m2.554s
user	0m2.428s
sys	0m0.124s


2.6 GHz AMD 64 bit running without any power saving.


-- 
Jonathan