Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!nj From: nj@magnolia.Berkeley.EDU (Narciso Jaramillo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Subject: Re: PasTeX performance on 68000 Amiga Message-ID: Date: 10 May 91 16:37:05 GMT References: <8288@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Sender: nobody@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: usa Organization: Postcarcinogenic Bliss, Inc. Lines: 44 In-reply-to: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU's message of 8 May 91 01:32:18 GMT barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes: > How many seconds per page (or pages per second?) does PasTeX 1.2 > run? At school, I'm used to a speed of 1-3 pages per second. What machine is that on? Just curious. Anyway, here's my highly unofficial stats, running the latest version of PasTeX on a 12-page LaTeX file with lots of equations. Timings were gathered by simultaneously watching a clock on the screen and noticing when left brackets popped up; I estimate them to be accurate to within 2 seconds. Everything is running off a Quantum 105M hard disk. 09:17:30 Command typed. :31 TeX banner appears. :46 LaTeX format file finishes loading. :58 [1 appears. 09:18:03 [2 appears. :10 [3 appears. :18 [4 appears. :23 [5 appears. :29 [6 appears. :35 [7 appears. :41 [8 appears. :49 [9 appears. :54 [10 appears. 09:19:02 [11 appears. :08 [12 appears. :12 Done. If we average just the costs of each page (not including the startup cost), we get an average time per page of about 6.2 seconds. If we include the startup cost (i.e. take the total time and divide it by 12), we get 8.5 seconds per page. I find the time per page pretty acceptable for a lowly 7 MHz 68000 machine. The startup cost is pretty high, though--15 seconds to load the format file, plus about 12 seconds to load the document style. Unfortunately, there's no way to make the format file resident (although all the actual programs--virtex, showdvi, initex, etc.--are residentable--kudos to the author). nj