[luatex] LuaTeX precompilation

[Hans Hagen]

On 12/20/2023 6:19 PM, Henrik Mannerström wrote:
> This thread turned into a debate over what is slow, what packages you should use and how old computers you can use. I’m re-posting my original question:
> 
> How hard would it be to make a luatex compatible precompiled format? One that basically serialises the whole luatex state to a file and could re-use
> it? Would it speed up the compilation of short documents? Is there any plans or projects related to this?

Did you time how long loading these packagestakes? Things like fonts 
always need to be loaded (and a 8 bit font is way smaller than a 32 bit 
wide font with features). You could try to use latex/luatex with 8 bit 
fonts.

Hans


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