LuaTeX vs XeTeX

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

And 20 seconds is a drama? Come on.

And my understanding is that you can pass parameters from the command
line to make, so this can become part of an automatable workflow.

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On 2021-12-20 22:49 , Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote:
> Dr Eberhard Lisse via lyx-users said on Mon, 20 Dec 2021 08:49:24 +0200
> 
> 
>> PDFLaTeX is much faster that LuaLaTeX but to be hoest, nowadays the
>> day to day stuff is so fast anyway that that doesn't matter.
> 
> I noticed that my new book, which is much shorter than most, took
> about triple the time, like about 20 seconds on a very fast machine,
> to compile that books with LaTeX, XeTeX, and PDFTeX took.  Because I
> personalize every book, I need to recompile for every order, so I
> might research using PDFTeX. Thanks for the tip.
> 
> SteveT
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