Re: performance issue with TeX Live

[Emmanuel Beffara]

Hello,

De Nicolas Goaziou le 13/09/2023 à 14:39:
> Emmanuel Beffara <manu@beffara.org> writes:
> 
> > I am facing a severe performance issue with TeX Live: compilation of any
> > document is an order of magnitude slower with a Guix installed system as
> > compared to a manual installation. Is anyone confronted to this phenomenon, 
> > or
> > is there a way to fix this ?
> 
> I also experienced a noticeable slowdown; I don't know how to fix it yet.
[...]
> A ls-R file is generated during profile creation (see
> `texlive-font-maps' function in "guix/profiles.scm") but it seems it is
> not read.
> 
> It may be interesting to compare location and contents of the ls-R files
> in both installations.

I tried to explore this but I see no reason why the ls-R files would be
ignored and I don't know how to explore this further. I do want to contribute
to a solution, because right now texlive is practically unusable in Guix.

-- 
Emmanuel