Hello,
Malte Frank Gerdes <malte.f.ger...@gmail.com> writes:
> i'm building a small document with LuaLaTeX, for that i have use the
> following manifest
>
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> (specifications->manifest
> (list
> "texlive-amsmath"
> "texlive-todonotes"
> "texlive-xpatch"
> "texlive-collection-luatex"
> "texlive-collection-basic"
> "texlive-latexmk"
> "texlive-scheme-basic"
> "texlive-biber"
> "texlive-booktabs"
> "texlive-microtype"
> "texlive-koma-script"
> "texlive-lipsum"
> "texlive-pgfplots"
> "texlive-biblatex"))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>
> This command takes quite a long time
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> guix time-machine --commit=21b718f4d6c3ded8ef50d12f6e9ae6474f74620f \
> shell --manifest=guix.scm -- latexmk -lualatex -auxdir=.tex-cache main
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>
> To be precise:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Command being timed: "guix shell -m guix.scm -- latexmk -lualatex
> -auxdir=.tex-cache main"
> User time (seconds): 14.60
> System time (seconds): 87.58
> Percent of CPU this job got: 99%
> Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 1:43.18
> Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
> Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
> Average stack size (kbytes): 0
> Average total size (kbytes): 0
> Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 179368
> Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
> Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
> Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 118914
> Voluntary context switches: 2146
> Involuntary context switches: 3693
> Swaps: 0
> File system inputs: 462280
> File system outputs: 6584
> Socket messages sent: 0
> Socket messages received: 0
> Signals delivered: 0
> Page size (bytes): 4096
> Exit status: 0
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>
> Running `latexmk -lualatex -auxdir=.tex-cache main` takes under 10
> seconds. These times are for fresh builds, i.e. the intermediate files
> have been removed. Still even recompilation is many times slower with
> guix provided LuaLaTeX than it is on Arch. I should also note, that
> using the modular TeX packages actually helps here, with the full
> TeXlive package the compilation time is nearly twice as much.
>
> Another thing i noticed is, that a directory with the following
> structure gets created:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> {
> └── gnu
> └── store
> └── 3wsicprhgxhcncaf5mv26wwbhhh8p6yj-profile
> └── share
> └── texmf-dist
> └── luatex-cache
> └── generic
> ├── fonts
> │ └── otl
> │ ├── lmroman10-italic.lua
> │ ├── lmroman10-italic.luc
> │ ├── lmroman10-regular.lua
> │ ├── lmroman10-regular.luc
> │ ├── lmroman12-regular.lua
> │ ├── lmroman12-regular.luc
> │ ├── lmroman17-regular.lua
> │ ├── lmroman17-regular.luc
> │ ├── lmromanslant10-regular.lua
> │ ├── lmromanslant10-regular.luc
> │ ├── lmsans10-bold.lua
> │ ├── lmsans10-bold.luc
> │ ├── lmsans10-regular.lua
> │ └── lmsans10-regular.luc
> └── names
> ├── luaotfload-lookup-cache.lua
> ├── luaotfload-lookup-cache.luc
> ├── luaotfload-names.lua.gz
> └── luaotfload-names.luc.gz
>
> 11 directories, 18 files
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> This is obviously for caching purposes, but (seemingly random) having a
> folder named '{' in your working directory certainly is confusing.
Both issues reported here are now fixed. Thank you.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
