[OzTeX] OzTeX on MacIntel

[John Rawnsley]

On 22 Feb 2006, at 23:53, Andrew Trevorrow wrote:

>>                   OzTeX        latex
>> Dual 1.8GHz G5     13.8         5.7
>> 2GHz Intel iMac    19.2         3.4
>
> Interesting figures, and not all that surprising.

And not at all disappointing. OzTeX under Rosetta on an iMac
is approaching the same speed as OzTeX running natively on
a dual processor G5 of fairly recent vintage.

> I suspect most of the
> difference is due to disk i/o -- OzTeX's file searching algorithm  
> is not
> as sophisticated as teTeX's, so if you have very long search lists for
> input_folders, tfm_folders, etc., then OzTeX starts to struggle.
> Of course, you can always call teTeX's latex from OzTeX!

I prefer OzTeX's interactive mode and command stacking for texing
rather than command line latex. While ever OzTeX keeps working
under Rosetta I have no plans to switch.

John
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