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Oh, I see. Many thanks!<BR>
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Best Regards<BR>
Wenchang<BR> <BR>> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:08:28 +0100<BR>> To: sunwch@hotmail.com<BR>> CC: tex-live@tug.org<BR>> Subject: Re: [tex-live] texlive for win64<BR>> From: preining@logic.at<BR>> <BR>> Dear Sun,<BR>> <BR>> please stay on list, thanks<BR>> <BR>> On Mo, 16 Nov 2009, SUN Wenchang wrote:<BR>> > I have not found any problem with the 32bit programs. <BR>> <BR>> Well, that is fine to know.<BR>> <BR>> > I just think 64bit programs could run faster in a 64bit windows.<BR>> <BR>> Well, yes, and? I spend 99% of my time *writing* and not compiling,<BR>> I don't see any big advantage by now.<BR>> <BR>> Furthermore, and that is the much bigger problem, we do *not* want<BR>> to cope with two versions of that §/$(&§$ OS, we already have to<BR>> fight it as win32 and cygwin. I am not sure if we want to adapt the<BR>> whole infrastructure for another broken-by-design system.<BR>> <BR>> &
gt; And I find that there is a 64bit version for Linux.<BR>> <BR>> Yes, because it is *hundreds* of times easier to maintain anything on<BR>> Unix compared to Windows. Look into the code of our infrastructure/tlmgr<BR>> and you will see that without Windows we could probably kill loads of<BR>> code ... while for Unix 32bit or 64bit are just two different things<BR>> which can be easily treated.<BR>> <BR>> Best wishes<BR>> <BR>> Norbert<BR>> <BR>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>> Dr. Norbert Preining Associate Professor<BR>> JAIST Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology preining@jaist.ac.jp<BR>> Vienna University of Technology preining@logic.at<BR>> Debian Developer (Debian TeX Task Force) preining@debian.org<BR>> gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094<BR>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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