You can't have it Good, Cheap, and Fast all at once ;) On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Mojca Miklavec < mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 14:47, Cecil Westerhof wrote: > > > > Both did not work for me. But removing --purgeall from my script reduced > the > > time from 30 seconds to 10. > > When you don't use --purgeall, ConTeXt calculates different things > (for example table of contents, cross-references etc.) and stores them > to temporary files. Next time when you compile the same document > without too many changes it simply reuses the old data. > > But if you remove the temporary files with --purgeall, ConTeXt has to > recalculate everything from scratch. Out of curiosity I checked that > on my own document and realized exactly the same thing. Compile time > dropped from 27 to 9 seconds, but only because ConTeXt had to read and > typeset the document three times (I thought it usually did it twice). > > If you remove all the temporary files and call context without > --purgeall, it will also take 30 seconds to typeset everything; it is > only the second and all the subsequent runs that finish the job > faster. > > Mojca > > PS: You would get the same kind of behaviour in MKII (however if MKII > only runs twice and if there is a speed factor of 1.5, you could > declare MKII being "three times faster" which does make some > difference when compilation time is long). > > PPS (not to be taken (too) seriously): But I wouldn't be surprized if, > say, two years from now you would try to repeat the experiment just to > find out that MKIV became faster. (Unlikely to happen, but imaging > Taco coming to idea to use all the four processor cores of your new > machine and Hans reducing the number of required runs from three to > two plus some extra optimizations.) > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ >
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