Thanks for the tip. I find that context --make
takes quite a long time whether or not I'm running the command prompt as an administrator. But when I compile my experimental file as administrator it now runs as fast as I would expect - so it is that that makes the difference. Why this should be I cannot say (and am not going to spend time finding out!). I do have an embarrassingly basic question about my test file which I'll post in a separate thread. Best wishes John *🇪🇺 * Слава Україні! * 🇺🇦* <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> Virus-free.www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 at 18:58, Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > On 6/22/2025 6:03 PM, John Was wrote: > > Yes, it's an odd thing - even odder now since the last two runs have > > been much faster. This without any intervention from me. It will be > > interesting to see what happens when I switch off and resume tomorrow. > > But it's not a serious issue for me at the moment since I'm only using > > the machine to experiment with various features of the program. > > just try this after a fresh start: > > context --make > > context --make > > and note the difference in reported time ... the operating system caches > files and programs like tex benefits from this > > in the past when running on a network share - in most cases we use(d) > opensuse linux servers - using e.g. installations like texlive was > basically impossible due to the size which is why we had the minimal > distributions, also for pdfex/mkii; i think that over time kpse lookups > improved a bit but is is one of the reasons why we had agressive caching > in the runners (texexec etc) just so to limit the number of nested > kpsewhich database loading overhead and kept startup time bearable > > in the meantime startup time of a context run in lmtx should be below .5 > seconds and that includes the runner as well as the engine (and on > modern systems below .25 sec but i can't check that as i only have > laptop hardware pre 2018 to test on) > > Hans > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- >
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