On 2019-04-22 01:55, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
I have a project of 15 LyX files and one common Tex include file.
The complete (master) document takes between 70 and 75 seconds.
If I just compile the most complicated child document it takes 20
seconds.
The least complicated document (a placeholder of one page without any
images or references) takes 12 second.
All of course in LuaLaTeX which is much slower than PDFLaTeX.
I am finding that it doesn't make that much difference. I am quite sure
that the references don't make much of a difference.
I am using PDFLaTeX and each child document takes about 1.5 minutes on
Core i7. However, my work computer is much weaker: m3 from 2015. There
it takes a couple of minutes to compile.
However, if I was doing a lot of complicated equation stuff and the
waiting were really to bother me, I would devise a file which has the
same formatting as the master document (by way of a tex include file)
and design the equation in that file, akin to a Minimal Working Example.
I am sure that would compile quickly, and once the equations looks
right, just cut and paste into the proper document.
What would be very interesting is to compile a LaTeX benchmark document
on the computer you are using.
https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/latex-bench/
gives me on MacOs 10.14.4
MacBook 12", 2017, 16GB, 1.4 GHz Intel Core i7
pdflatex: 0m0.844s
lualatex: 0m2.974s
MacPro, Late 2013, 48 GB, 3.5 Ghz 6core Xeon E5
pdflatex: 0m0.526s
lualatex: 0m2.312s
iMac, Late 2015, 32GB, 3.3 GHz, Intel Core i5
pdflatex: 0m0.513s
lualatex: 0m1.866s
and on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Proline 2011, 2GB, 2.80GHz, Pentium Dual-Core
pdflatex: 0m0.718s
lualatex: 0m3.404s
el
I'll try to run this on my work computer tomorrow and see what it gives me.
Daniel
