Fabrice Popineau <
address@hidden> wrote:
> I can compile a 20-slide file (no tikz) in less than a second.
> Of course, larger slide decks will take longer and I'm sure tikz
> requires considerable CPU time, but what do you mean by "huge"?
> Also how big a slide deck are you talking about and what percentage
> of the slides use tikz?
>
> About 1500 slides (350 actual frames with overlays) for a 20 hours course.
> LuaTeX + opentype fonts makes it even slower. Some complex slides with
> animate algorithms (mergesort, ford fulkerson, stuff like that)
> Ok, I can split it in lectures (albeit that's not so simple to use \lectureonly without
> breaking toc). I can use the externalize library. Etc.
>
Yikes! That's a whole 'nother ballgame. Even if I had something that