[OS X TeX] Timing

[George Gratzer]

Do you remember when Textures was in beta, and it took about a minute  
to typeset one page? Of course, the Macs then were very slow.

GG

On Feb 22, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 22 févr. 06 à 17:15, William Adams a écrit :
>
>> I believe typesetting in TeXshop adds some (negligible?) overhead in
>> terms of inter-process communication or some such between the TeXing
>> process and TeXshop's display of it (I'm sure someone else will
>> provide a more accurate description and terminology).
>
> I remember a time, before OS X, when typesetting a main document,  
> which called several other documents through \input or \include,  
> took literally minutes in Textures and a few seconds to one minute  
> in OzTeX. My analysis was that Textures relied on high-level (and  
> sophisticated) Mac OS system calls, checking the integrity of each  
> file before opening and closing it, whereas OzTeX was using low- 
> level routines, much faster but without such checks.
>
> A consequence was that, for example, on the Macs of that time  
> (around 1993 or 1994), unpacking the beta then first LaTeX 2e  
> distributions (that is, processing the content of the base  
> directory to create what's know available pre-digested in the  
> unpacked directory) took between 2 to 3 hours IIRC with Textures.
>
> Those were fun times!
>
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