[tex-live] Request for performance check of legacy darwin (luatex)

jfbu jfbu at free.fr
Fri Mar 9 10:48:05 CET 2018


Le 9 mars 2018 à 10:10, jfbu <jfbu at free.fr> a écrit :

> Thanks for looking into this. I think the slowdown is 50% from number above.


Sorry for having forgotten TL2016 timings.

I get typically

$ time luatex temptest2.tex
This is LuaTeX, Version 0.95.0 (TeX Live 2016) 
 restricted system commands enabled.
(./temptest2.tex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .)
warning  (pdf backend): no pages of output.
Transcript written on temptest2.log.

real	0m14.607s
user	0m14.552s
sys	0m0.047s

thus on Mac OS X 10.9.5

TeXLive 2016: about 14.5 seconds
MacPorts2017 (version available in August 2017): about 16 seconds
TeXLive 2018 trial luatex binary for darwin legacy: about 24 seconds

Best

Jean-François


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