<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Roberto,<div><br></div><div><div>On Nov 24, 2009, at 11:44 PM, roberto avanzi wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div>Why Snow Leopard as a minimum requirement? Leopard can run 64 bit cli-only binaries.<br><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This was a deliberate choice. We compile both PPC and Intel binaries on Tiger, to support as many machines as possible. Since Leopard is already supported by these 32-bit binaries, and since the difference in speed between 32-bits and 64-bits is very small, we have the luxury of making the 64-bit binaries with the latest compilers and libraries. Thus the binaries are made on Snow Leopard and don't run on Leopard.</div><div><br></div><div>Dick Koch</div><div><br></div><div>PS: On the speed difference between MacTeX and BasicTeX, I have to cry "uncle." Herb and Jonathan, have explained why BasicTeX could be faster.</div><div><br><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>