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Bug#750785: texlive-binaries: ConTeXt/xetex processing extremely slow after update



reassign 750785 libharfbuzz0b
tags 750785 + patch
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On 06.06.14 Thanasis Kinias (tkinias@kinias.org) wrote:

Dear all,

> After today’s testing update (context 2014.05.21.20140528-1 and
> texlive-binaries 2014.20140528.34243-2), I see a massive slowdown in
> xetex processing of ConTeXt docs:  one document (ca. 400 pages) I am
> working on has increased its processing time by a factor of 300+ (from
> something like 3 sec per run before the update to around 17 minutes
> now).  For this document, the xetex process uses 100% of a cpu core for
> nearly an hour to complete the typesetting.
> 
It turned out to be a bug in the harfbuzz library, which is used by
xetex. Upstream is aware of the problem and provided a patch for it.
After applying the patch the processing speed remains constant.

Ahmed: please be so kind apply the patch upon next upload.

Regards,
  Hilmar
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