Back-of-the-envelope numbers based on the trials summarized in Performance testing? suggest about three to five minutes to generate a full set of samples from arbitrary input. There is some overhead to instantiate the processor for each style. In the test rig:
| Cell | 83ms |
| Chicago Fullnote | 133ms |
| APA | 257ms |
Taking 90ms as an optimistic average build time, and 15ms as rendering time for three additional cites (citeproc-ruby clocks at about 20ms, this is again on the optimistic side for citeproc-js) yields 4.4 minutes as a low-end estimate:
bash> echo 4k 1964 d 0.090* r 0.015 3**+ 60/p|dc
4.4190