NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/text/tex/13446

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From: [e-mail] (Rui-Tao Dong ~{6-HpLN~})
Subject: TeX on Sparc
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Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Johns Hopkins University.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:05:53 GMT
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    I thought this would be an FAQ but couldn't find it in either FAQ or
FAQ-supp.

    Why does TeX takes so long (5-7 secs) to start on a SparcStation?
(We have TeX 3.14t3 and SunOS 4.1.2.) I use latex (amslatex) most of the
time and use include files to break long documents. Therefore, I need only
to run latex a couple of pages at once. I would like to see the result
through xdvi instantaneously. Although auctex allows me to run tex
asynchronously and go ahead to do the editing, it is still annoying to wait
that long.

    Here are the questions:

    1) Is there a better way to compile it? We have Sun bundled cc and
unbundled acc, and can get gcc if necessary. Is TeX compilable with pc and
is that going to be any faster? (Was TeX written in a dialect of Pascal?)

    2) Is there a better way to use it? Can I keep TeX running all the
time and send new files to it on demand? (Like the way ispell works in
emacs. Ispell takes 5 secs to start. Emacs starts ispell the first time you
use it and keep it running until you kill emacs.)

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

    Rui-Tao Dong ~{6-HpLN~}            Department of Mathematics
    [e-mail]            The Johns Hopkins University
    [phone](O) [phone](Fax)        Baltimore, Maryland 21218