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LinuxCon: A tale of two bootcharts

LinuxCon: A tale of two bootcharts

Posted Sep 2, 2010 11:20 UTC (Thu) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646)
In reply to: LinuxCon: A tale of two bootcharts by nix
Parent article: LinuxCon: A tale of two bootcharts

For LaTeX it is still of interest in special circumstances where one preloads classes and packages as well and then dumps the fmt file.

In a current project of mine, I was able to improve the format time of a document from 4 sec to 0.4 secs with usage of such a format file. It's not much for one document, but since (a) we're producing ca. 15 million documents a year and (b) this is also used in an interactive environment, such performance improvements were very well received by our users.


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