[OS X TeX] Speed of TeX on OSX

[Nigel King]

I use batch,
texexec --batch --pdf filename
which increased the speed on my machine.

--
Nigel

On 8 Jun 2004, at 16:30, Adam Lindsay wrote:

> TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List said this at Mon, 7 Jun 2004 20:00:01 
> -0400:
>
>>>> Does anyone have an explanation for this difference in speed?
>
> ConTeXt, in particular, gets pretty bound by the output console. I just
> ran some tests, and one test file (ran so there was one pdfetex pass
> only) took:
>  36 secs in iTeXMac with syntax colouring in the log/console
>  21 secs in iTeXMac (without colouring, how I usually work, actually)
>  18 secs in TeXShop
>  14-18 s in Terminal.app
>  14 secs in an XTerm, and
>  11 seconds with stdout redirected to a log file.
>
> That's over 3x difference, depending on the console being displayed
> during your document. So I'd take a look at how you're running your
> files. ('texexec --silent', strangely, didn't change anything that I
> could see.)
>
> Cheers,
> adam
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