[tex-live] texlive for win64

[SUN Wenchang]

Oh, I see. Many thanks!

 

Best Regards

Wenchang
 
> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:08:28 +0100
> To: sunwch at hotmail.com
> CC: tex-live at tug.org
> Subject: Re: [tex-live] texlive for win64
> From: preining at logic.at
> 
> 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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