[tex-live] running programs from texlive tlc2
Hans Hagen
pragma at wxs.nl
Thu Dec 9 09:52:17 CET 2004
Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> So, the Windows OS can make things tens if not hundreds of times slower
> (and I am not some "script-kiddie" Linux zealot child but professional
> programmer who spent 11 years on operating systems development and I
> personally don't care what OS the computer runs, as long as it does the
> job.
i use windows (2000 and xp) as well as linux and if your tex is configured
right, there is no difference in speed (after all, tex is not doing that much);
there may be differneces due to caching of files (on both systems the first run
is slower than successive ones); on windows, some jobs may even be faster (like
runtime metapost/tex processing) due to the fact that kpse stays in memory
so, if you run into 10-100 slower jobs on windows, there must be something
terribly messed up in your setup
we run pretty complex (and huge) books here but they seldom take the
months/many-hours you mention
Hans
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