On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 10:02 PM Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> What if you replace the Hello World by \null and disable page numbers? > Minimal example: 2.02s Remove microtype 1.95s Remove page number: 1.95s Remove page content: 1.95s For me, it does not make much of a difference. > which means that luatex needs 0.1 sec more when we do real pages? > My question has never been about pages per second, but about startup time. In pdftex, you can make the startup almost instantaneous with a precompiled format. How feasible would this be in luatex? - 32 bit fonts with features > - unicode math > - 32 bit patterns > All this is good, and I understand that loading takes time. Would it be doable to use a cache or something similar to speed up the loading? now, what really can slow down is protrusion and expansion (how useful > and needed are they)? actually expansion in luatex is done a bit > different (more granular, less font instances, etc) but I;m not sure if > that adds much, > In my example protrusion did not make a significant difference. As for the usefulness of algorithmic typesetting? I crossed that river a long time ago. ;)
