[XeTeX] Arabic prose
Bruno Voisin
bvoisin at mac.com
Sat Jul 2 00:04:19 CEST 2005
Le 1 juil. 05 à 21:09, Jonathan Kew a écrit :
> It would be interesting to try restarting OS X, and see if the
> behavior is the same with a freshly booted system. I just restarted
> my PowerBook, as it happens, and the ArabJustify example seems to
> typeset noticeable faster than previously. Timing from Terminal:
>
>> Kew-PowerBookG4:~/Desktop jonathan$ time xetex ArabJustify
>> This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.94 (Web2C 7.5.3)
>> entering extended mode
>> (./ArabJustify.tex [1] )
>> Output written on ArabJustify.pdf (1 page).
>> Transcript written on ArabJustify.log.
>>
>> real 0m1.182s
>> user 0m0.558s
>> sys 0m0.257s
These two were done in sequence, one after the other, just after
restarting:
agrenoble-152-1-54-246:~/Desktop brunovoisin$ time xetex
ArabJustify.tex
This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.94 (Web2C 7.5.3)
entering extended mode
(./ArabJustify.tex [1] )
Output written on ArabJustify.pdf (1 page).
Transcript written on ArabJustify.log.
real 0m10.622s
user 0m0.779s
sys 0m0.601s
agrenoble-152-1-54-246:~/Desktop brunovoisin$ time xetex
ArabJustify.tex
This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.94 (Web2C 7.5.3)
entering extended mode
(./ArabJustify.tex [1] )
Output written on ArabJustify.pdf (1 page).
Transcript written on ArabJustify.log.
real 0m1.508s
user 0m0.754s
sys 0m0.410s
And then:
agrenoble-152-1-54-246:~/Desktop brunovoisin$ time xetex --no-
pdf ArabJustify.tex
This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.94 (Web2C 7.5.3)
entering extended mode
(./ArabJustify.tex [1] )
Output written on ArabJustify.xdv (1 page, 948 bytes).
Transcript written on ArabJustify.log.
real 0m1.024s
user 0m0.393s
sys 0m0.362s
agrenoble-152-1-54-246:~/Desktop brunovoisin$ time xdv2pdf
ArabJustify.xdv
real 0m0.534s
user 0m0.360s
sys 0m0.053s
All on a 1 GHz PowerBook G4.
Difficult to see any logical pattern here.
Bruno Voisin
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