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How many times have you measured the run-time and how exactly?

TeXnicCenter neither cares about class files nor about \includes when compiling. The stated difference sounds pretty much exaggerated to me, unless your TeX documents emit hundreds of warnings or overfull box messages.

Must admit, it ...

Thanks for the response about the colours.

In terms of noticeable, it depends. I can't tell the difference in day to day use with usual compilation of mathematical articles intended for paper submission. Ballpark figure is around 2 seconds for both TeXnicCenter and the command line.

Where it was ...

First off would like to say I like the new alpha version and think its great. I look forward to the release of 2.0 stable (or even beta if that comes first)

Just a quick query, I did a search and couldn't find how to fix.

I was wondering how to change the colours of the brackets (), [], and math ...