[tex-live] texlive for win64

[Norbert Preining]

Dear Sun,

please stay on list, thanks

On Mo, 16 Nov 2009, SUN Wenchang wrote:
> I have not found any problem with the 32bit programs. 

Well, that is fine to know.

> I just think 64bit programs could run faster in a 64bit windows.

Well, yes, and? I spend 99% of my time *writing* and not compiling,
I don't see any big advantage by now.

Furthermore, and that is the much bigger problem, we do *not* want
to cope with two versions of that §/$(&§$ OS, we already have to
fight it as win32 and cygwin. I am not sure if we want to adapt the
whole infrastructure for another broken-by-design system.

> And I find that there is a 64bit version for Linux.

Yes, because it is *hundreds* of times easier to maintain anything on
Unix compared to Windows. Look into the code of our infrastructure/tlmgr
and you will see that without Windows we could probably kill loads of
code ... while for Unix 32bit or 64bit are just two different things
which can be easily treated.

Best wishes

Norbert

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Vienna University of Technology                               preining at logic.at
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