[luatex] LuaLaTeX's performance

[Pander]

On 2010-11-19 21:57, Jonathan Fine wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

Today's version:

$ time tex '\end'
This is TeX, Version 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2010)
No pages of output.
Transcript written on texput.log.

real	0m0.149s
user	0m0.050s
sys	0m0.030s

$ time xetex '\end'
This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9997.4 (TeX Live 2010)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
No pages of output.
Transcript written on texput.log.

real	0m0.555s
user	0m0.130s
sys	0m0.280s

$ time luatex '\end'
This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.64.0-2010111216
 restricted \write18 enabled.
No pages of output.
Transcript written on texput.log.

real	0m0.222s
user	0m0.180s
sys	0m0.030s