Hi all, at Debian they got a report that loading expl3.ltx when building formats is **extremely** slow when running under emulations:
1070...@bugs.debian.org Running fmtutil output through ts (timestamp utility from moreutils): May 01 14:28:46 LaTeX2e <2024-06-01> pre-release-0 (develop 2024-5-1 branch) May 01 14:28:46 (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3kernel/expl3.ltx May 01 14:51:15 (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3kernel/expl3-code.tex)) hacks, May 01 14:51:19 document commands, control, par, spacing, files, font encodings, lengths, That is 23 **minutes** to load expl3-code.tex. Ok, the file is nearly 4k lines, but still, 23 minutes seems to be excessive. Any ideas? Please keep the Cc Best regards Norbert -- PREINING Norbert https://www.preining.info arXiv / Cornell University + IFMGA Guide + TU Wien + TeX Live GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13
