29 May
2009
29 May
'09
10:58 a.m.
The Thanh Han wrote:
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 01:05:40AM +0200, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
Hi, did anybody observe already that pdftex gets slower and slower when processing huge documents?
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You'll see that at the beginning Knuth's TeX and pdfTeX need approximately the same amount of time to process one \input file. But while Knuth's TeX needs the same amount of time to process any \input file, the amount of time pdfTeX needs increases steadily.
I confirm this symptom with pdftex-1.40.9. Not sure what is the cause yet...
Ah now I have it too (after a much longer run). Is it string pool growth maybe (from the \input file names)? Best wishes, Taco