On 06/12/2019 03:15, Doug McKenna wrote:
Given all the parsing of the Unicode character data files during INITEX, and
all the inputting and creation of the hyphenation trees, how much CPU time
elapses while building the XeTeX format file for LateX? I'm going to assume
that the writing out of the format at the final \dump command is negligible,
though I don't really know.
- Doug McKenna
'Not very long': of the order of seconds. On my i5 Dell XPS, using an
Ubuntu VM on top of Windows 10 "time fmtutil-sys -byfmt xelatex" gives
real 0m2.154s
user 0m1.314s
sys 0m0.094s
My native system is slower: this is a known issue to do with file access
on Windows. LuaTeX is about 0.5s faster, I guess largely as it does not
load hyphenation patterns.
The LaTeX dev formats, which pre-load more data, take a little longer:
for XeLaTeX-dev
real 0m3.186s
user 0m2.244s
sys 0m0.090s
Joseph
