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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:03:25 -0500
To: jmadams AT stsci DOT edu (John M. Adams), cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: latex painfully slow
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At 06:25 PM 2/13/2004, John M. Adams you wrote:
>Dear Friends,
>
>Yesterday I updated cygwin and now latex is amazingly slow.  By this I
>mean that its output comes out about 1 line per second.  You know,
>stuff like this:
>
>..
>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/hyperref/hyperref.sty
>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/hyperref/pd1enc.def)
>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/hyperref.cfg)
>Implicit mode ON; LaTeX internals redefined
>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/url.sty))
>*hyperref using driver hdvips*
>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/hyperref/hdvips.def
>(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/hyperref/pdfmark.def)) (./PPRjmadams.sty
>Jmadams style for Prosper ---
>...
>
>It is normal for this stuff to fly by even on slower machines like my
>Linux box, which is only 433Mhz.
>
>I am not observing any other performance problems on the system.  So,
>I wonder whether something is wrong with latex.
>
>Comments?


Sure.  How about:

>Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html




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