[tex-live] TeXLive 2005 is slower than TeXLive2003

[David Kastrup]

"Jinsong Zhao" <jszhao at mail.hzau.edu.cn> writes:

> Dear all,
>
> I hope my question is only a special case.
>
> I have install the TL2005 again, and now, it has a similar speed
> compared with TL2003. I don't know why.
>
> The previous version of TL2005 is installed from a the TL2005 Live
> DVD.  I just copy /bin, /texmf, /texmf-* and /xemtex to my disk and
> set proper environment. It's seems ok, but has a very low
> speed. However, in the same way, the TL2003 works well.
>
> Now, I install the TL2005 from the TL2005 Live DVD using the
> provided installer, and all seem works.
>
> I compared the directory of both TL2005, and don't find any
> different.

My guess would be that the installer also puts something somewhere
which fixes the "HOME directory", and that in absence of that, your
installation searched the whole disk instead.

> It seems that the installer of TL2005 is too simple,

Uh, what?  Because it works better than a manual copying of the _live_
files, it is "too simple"?

> and don't give enough information to user.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum