[tex-live] texlive for win64
Taco Hoekwater
taco at elvenkind.com
Mon Nov 16 11:56:51 CET 2009
Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Mo, 16 Nov 2009, SUN Wenchang wrote:
>> When will a 64-bit windows version of tex executalbes appear?
>
> Probably not in the next years ;-)
>
>> Ahthough the present win32 executables run well in a 64-bit windows,
>> a native solution could be much better. Thanks!
>
> 32bit is also native on 64 bit windows.
>
> What makes you think that 32bit tex is worse then 64bit? Up to now
> TeX and friends don't need address memory of a size that 64bit is needed.
64bit executables run noticeably faster than 32bit executables.
Afaik, this is true on all architectures based on AMD&intel chips,
regardless of operating system.
Best wishes,
Taco
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