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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Michael Maxwell wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:841e0dbd-77f6-9a11-9283-b78a80aa6af7@umd.edu">I've
noticed (and you probably have too) that a good proportion--maybe
half, for a 30 or so page document--of the runtime for a xelatex
document is startup: reading the style files. Since I re-use the
same style files for most papers, I seldom have a mistake in
those, so it seems a waste to re-run them every time I want a PDF
of a new version of my doc (or every time xetex finds a mistake in
my doc). Is there no way to save the results of loading that, so
that it could be re-loaded more quickly next time?<br>
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Are you <i>sure </i>that it is the time needed to load your style
files ? Are you basing that on the fact that when the file-read
list is no longer being augmented, that is the point at which your
system seems to hang ? If so, it may be font caching rather than
style-file reading that is the root cause. From an elevated TeX
Live 2020 command prompt, type "fc-cache -r -v", wait for it to
finish, and then try your TeX compilation again.<br>
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<i>Philip Taylor</i><br>
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