[luatex] how many bytes for fontdimens?

Hans Hagen j.hagen at xs4all.nl
Sat Aug 7 10:39:36 CEST 2021


On 8/6/2021 3:23 AM, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 2021-08-05 at 10:01:18 +0200, jfbu wrote:
> 
>   > I had accidentally TEXMFCNF set in my environment (from previous tests).
>   >
>   > Testing some more with this environment variable of TeXLive unset, I
>   > get completely different results.
> 
> Hello Jean-François,
> as Hans already pointed out, the size of the texmf tree matters.  IMO
> it's not a good idea to change TeX Live's configuration.  You can't
> achieve a significant improvement this way.  And please avoid
> TeX-related environment variables whenever possible.
of course with ssd's and plenty of memory (so the OS can cache lost of 
files) things became less an issue the last decade

Hans

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