I have an old and slow computer and long LaTeX files. When typing I prefer to use \frac 1{x}
instead of \frac{1}{x}
or x_i
instead of x_{i}
.
Does the presence or omission of curly braces in these instances affect the compilation time in any way? If so in which way?
x_mn
is not the same asx_{mn}
but with regards to the compilation I cannot say much.time
with and without braces for 60 simple expressions shows that thereal
anduser
times increase with braces (from 0.195s to 0.210s and from 0.176s to 0.188s). Thesys
time remains equal (0.020s).$\frac12$
one million times getting a user time of 8.69 seconds, while$\frac{1}{2}$
the same number of times takes 8.81 seconds. This is what I call a negligible difference; the latter syntax is clearer.