[luatex] LuaLaTeX's performance

[Khaled Hosny]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 08:57:11PM +0000, 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

This is caused by texlive2009's luatex.ini (and lualatex.ini) loading
all hyphenation patterns in the format which is discouraged when using
luatex, texlive2010 fixed that.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer