{profiling} is for questions involving the efficiency/speed of a macro, technique or construct.
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Benchmarking various operations of TeX
TeX offers plenty of ways of doing some things, and it is sometimes difficult to predict which one will be quickest. For instance, how do
a macro assignment
a toks assignment
a macro expansion
a ...
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How to determine the run time of a loop?
pdfTeX, provides two macros that can be used to determine the time elapsed from a run start. The first one determines the elapsed time in "scaled seconds", that means seconds divided by 65536.
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Analog of \pdfelapsedtime for LuaTeX and XeTeX
In pdfTeX, the \pdfelapsedtime primitive gives access to the time since this pdfTeX run was started, in "scaled seconds" (1/65536 seconds). This is useful to benchmark code: repeat it many times, and ...
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Is it still worthwhile to let TeX try line-breaking without hyphenation?
Here's TeX's line-breaking approach (as I understand it) in a nutshell:
If \pretolerance is positive, try to break a paragraph into lines without inserting discretionary hyphens and without ...
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Saving a 100 tokens worth, is it worth it?
The LaTeX kernel defines a number of tokens that are used throughout the LaTeX source and the standard LaTeX classes. For example:
\def\hb@xt@{\hbox to}
This particular one is commented as:
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