<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>So here's one more M1 vs. Intel data point, tested just now.<br></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I've got a program-generated LaTeX file that's about 9MB of ASCII TeX source code.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Running this through TeXShop outputs a 14.6MB PDF file that has 3,884 landscape pages. There are no illustrations.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Using TeXShop 4.69 and TeXLive 2019 on my Intel MacBook Pro (circa 2015), typesetting this 3,884-page document takes about 2 minutes and 30 seconds.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><div>Using TeXShop 4.7 and TeXLive 2021 on my M1 MacBook Pro (circa 2022), typesetting this same document takes about 1 minute and 45 seconds.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div>So it's not a perfect comparison, due to two different texlive distributions, but I would bet that doesn't matter much. But it's a long enough job that the initial constant time spent loading the binary format and all the packages is minimal.<br></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>In any case, the decrease in run time is from 150 seconds down to 105 seconds for this very long but generally vanilla document. That's a pretty significant change, representing something like a 30% to 40% increase in speed.<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Doug McKenna</div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div></div></body></html>