[OS X TeX] Slowdown in mac-emacs?

[Ross Moore]

> On March 8, Mark Guzdial writes:
> > I deal with the slowdown by editing Enrico's loadup.el file.  If you
> > turn off all the BibCite things, the speed increases back to normal.
> > I didn't notice the slowdown at first because I was editing a file
> > that had no bibliography.  I noticed the slowdown later when I was
> > editing something with a bazillion citations.
> 
> I'll try to go into the details of bibcite this weekend. It seems to
> me that just turning it off is a bit radical solution :-) 
> Bibcite is a very valuable package that is worthwhile keeping. So, I
> hope to find a better workaround.
> Thanks for pointing this out!
> 
> BTW: can you send me your file with a bazillion citations so that I
> can test with it?

Having a bazillion citations can cause problems other than just speed.
It eats into the memory allocated for  pool space .

We had to switch from Textures to pdfTeX on a book job, because
of lack of pool, due to lots of references.
You can increase it under teTeX but not in Textures.

Note however, that if you do alter the  pool size  then you have
to remake the format files;  e.g. latex.fmt, pdflatex.fmt, etc.


Hope this helps,

	Ross Moore

 
> cheers
> -- e.
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