Hi, On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 7:58 PM Shiv Shankar Dayal <shivshankar.da...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > >> In comparison to LaTeX with LuaHBTeX, ConTeXt with LuaMetaTeX is >> lightning fast. >> >> pdfTeX is 8bit, and Knuth’s plain TeX is very low level – for a fairer >> comparison, try the TeXbook on LuaMetaTeX (I don’t know if “plain” works >> though). > > > I understand that why it is slow, but the problem is that the difference is > too high. > My book has lots of math, so perhaps that is the reason. >
For what it is worth, I have a math book (lots of math and references back and forth and some figures) and the 300 pages compiles in around 10s, so 30 pages/s. I don't have too much to compare with, and that is a bit slower than your 40 pages/s (but 40*30 is 1200 and not 450), but I consider that pretty fast. One thing you can try is \enableexperiments[fonts.compact] (as it sounds, it is still experimental). Also, if you do not provide any example code, it will be difficult for people to guess how _you_ can speed up your compilation (if at all). /Mikael ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
