[tex-live] TeXLive-CD/DVD (Installation)
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Tue May 22 02:15:45 CEST 2007
>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> writes:
> "Martin Schröder" <martin at oneiros.de> writes:
>> 2007/5/22, Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>:
>>> Maybe. I personally vote for Perl because at the moment nobody
>>> has the time to re-invent everything for Windows again and Perl
>>> scripts can be written quite platform independent. And TL
>>> provides Perl for Windows already.
>>
>> I vote for lua because the next TL will have a portable lua
>> engine (luatex). :-)
> I hope it will be smart enough to avoid allocating memory for TeX
> when it is going to be used as a script engine. Compared to Lua
> itself, the TeX text segment is already a sizeable baggage even
> though there is a good chance that on modern operating systems
> most of it will never get paged when just using the Lua part.
Maybe in the future texlua can be a separate program, but it doesn't
make sense to ask Taco to maintain two programs at the moment.
Cheers,
Reinhard
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