<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>I don't consider these ipsum test real tests. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>I tested it with a variety of real documents, I can redo the tests if you want, but altogether, it was slower, albeit of course it is debatable what is considered ignorable, but my result was, due to this I'm not going to use it as default compiler and IMO we should not kid ourselves it is in fact a reason that hinders general adoption (unless a specific use case absolutely needs a new future, higher limits etc.).</div><div><br></div><div>The "ipsum test" wasn't to show how slow lualatex is.. i know it isn't real, it was for me the approach to create a minimal document to see what can be improved, naively if no part is slower the sum must be faster. But like said, the notion here is there is no issue.. so I stopped pushing that.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">just use what works best (pdftex will be around for ages); i assume <br>
latex will become faster over time so maybe in a few years your users <br>
won't notice a move to luatex<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>If both would get under the human perception limit for "as good as instant" I agree, which is 100ms, then no one would care about 10ms vs 100ms, unless that, it's the faster option unless specific needs arise, albeit it would really be beneficially to have the same default compiler due to details, or having packages depend on Lua features for convenience than necessity. </div><div><br></div><div>- Axel</div></div></div>