Antoine Junod wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Thanks to Hans, Hraban, Wolfgang and Aditya, I've successfully played
> with typescripts and Garamond PP as provided by Adobe with luatex.
>
> But I still have a little question :) By reducing my typescript to the
> strict minimum, as below, I'm still using 232 Mo (sic) of ram. My
> document test only contains nothing but a \switchtobodyfont but it
> takes 8.7 seconds to compile on a 4000 bogomips machine (athlon
> 2400+).
>
> For the C lover I am, that seems, errh, HUUUUUGE.
on larger docs (say 200 pages) we get 10 pages/sec
> Is it normal?
yes, lua allocates chunks in growing sizes and font tables are large;
the number is not always reflecting the actual usage
> Note that if I remove the [features=default] argument, mem is divided
> by 2, and time by 3. Also note that if I use more faces, it can go to
> 2Go of ram and 2 minutes of computing.
hm, the mk test document never tops that much (i think 400 M at most
when chinese, arab and zapfino are loaded
maybe there's something wrong with garbage collection on youe machine
Hans
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