IMPORTANT: FM11 & slow PDF creation - Adobe wants examples

Note from Kapil Verma, FM's senior product manager:
Hello Framers,
Hope you are well. I noticed that some users have reported their observations with slow performance when publishing to PDF with FrameMaker 11 as compared to the previous version of FrameMaker. I wanted to let you know that we have not found such issues when doing internal testing and our customers also did not report this during the beta program.
However, we wanted to work with you to iron out any potential issues there may be. So, if you are seeing a performance slowdown on your side, we would like to test some more with your files and investigate the issue you may be facing. It will be great if you can send your sample files (along with any details on steps, your environment etc. which will help reproduce the issue) to [email protected] and cc  me ([email protected]). Thanks for your cooperation and we look forward to working with you to resolve any issues there may be.
Thanks,
Kapil Verma
Sr. Product Manager - FrameMaker | FrameMaker Publishing Server

Based on the number of recent complaints about PDF rendering performance, it rather looks like there might be a problem with the newer FM releases. I can't personally say, because we're still on FM7/Unix, and don't use our FM9/Win764 versions for production.
Printing to .ps and Distilling separately should help at least get your FM GUI prompt back sooner, and unless Adobe has broken it, the full Acrobat Pro product can be set to have Distiller "watch" directories for new .ps files, and generate PDFs without any user attention.
It would be interesting to know if the rendering process is multi-threaded to any significant degree. if so, having more cores in your CPU would help.
I'm also wondering if FM11 gets any benefit from installation on Win64.
And at the risk of stimulating conspiracy theories, would using Framemaker Server print any faster? I at least presume that it would free up the workstations during print.
Per-core CPU clocks hit the wall 10 years ago. Per core perf has been creeping up since then, with most of the per-chip gain in the form of more cores. Application coders, however, seem to be assuming that per-core performance is still ramping up at 2x@2yr as a side effect of Moore's Conjecture.

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