[OS X TeX] Time penalty when using kpsewhich on mac os x?
jfbu
jfbu at free.fr
Sat Oct 11 19:31:15 CEST 2014
Hi,
I have MacTeX 2014, regularly updated via the TeX Live Utility,
on Mac OS X mavericks
OS X 10.9.5 (13F34)
Darwin 13.4.0
when I run in Terminal
time kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFLOCAL
I get, typically:
/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local
real 0m0.491s
user 0m0.476s
sys 0m0.010s
I initiated a question on the tex-k mailing list,
and I got the info that this is not there on other
(non Mac) machines
Karl Berry wrote:
> 2) The "bottleneck" is not generic to any installation. Running
> kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFLOCAL returns instantly on my machine, and, I
> would assume, just about everyone else's or this exact report would be
> flooding the list. After all, this invocation is just reading a couple
> relatively small text files.
Thus, I wonder if the 1/2 second for kpsewhich only to
return the value of TEXMFLOCAL is observed on other Mac OS X
MacTeX installations, or if there is some misconfiguration
on my personal machine, like environment variables which could
induce kpsewhich to a non-necessary scanning
of repertories
for info I have still in /usr/local/texlive the 2012 and 2013
repertories,
about nothing in my ~/Library/texmf and ~/Library/texlive
I do have a few things in /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local
best regards
Jean-Francois
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