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It is not slow, it runs in under a second on most documents I have authored. It is slow. On my PhD thesis, it took more than one minute at some point, on an SS
by danieldk 13y ago
It is not slow, it runs in under a second on most documents I have authored.
It is slow. On my PhD thesis, it took more than one minute at some point, on an SSD. Not very convenient if you are tweaking figures and equations, and want to preview a change quickly.
- nhaehnle 13y agoI agree that that aspect of LaTeX sucks. That said, as a matter of exchanging practical hints: If you haven't yet heard of \includeonly, you should definitely check it out ;)
- orbifold 13y agoThen you did it wrong. You should have just factored your thesis in multiple files, for example used one for each chapter.
- nailer 13y agoThat sounds like a workaround.
- timtadh 13y agoActually, it is a pretty useful feature. I break my documents up into multiple files and can compile pieces of them together for different audiences. Want an executive summary of my research just build the abstract + a summary. Want to review the literature with my advisor, build the just the literature review. However, I will agree that using it to address slowness of a build process is just a hack.
- nimish 13y agoIt is, but you have to remember latex is best thought of a programming language that outputs pdfs so splitting into multiple source files is useful, as is source control.
- scintill76 13y agoI suppose you would say splitting your C++ into separate source files is a "workaround" for slow compilation times, too? It could be, but both are probably good practice anyway.
- danieldk 13y agoMy thesis was split in multiple files.