Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popin...@supelec.fr> wrote:

>     I can compile a 20-slide file (no tikz) in less than a second.
>     Of course, larger slide decks will take longer and I'm sure tikz
>     requires considerable CPU time, but what do you mean by "huge"?
>     Also how big a slide deck are you talking about and what percentage
>     of the slides use tikz?
> 
> About 1500 slides (350 actual frames with overlays) for a 20 hours course.
> LuaTeX + opentype fonts makes it even slower. Some complex slides with 
> animate algorithms (mergesort, ford fulkerson, stuff like that)
> Ok, I can split it in lectures (albeit that's not so simple to use 
> \lectureonly without
> breaking toc). I can use the externalize library. Etc.
> 

Yikes! That's a whole 'nother ballgame. Even if I had something that
big, I don't think I could manage it in a single file.

Nick


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