[tex-live] texlive for win64

[Jjgod Jiang]

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
> Well, yes, and? I spend 99% of my time *writing* and not compiling,
> I don't see any big advantage by now.

By making it compiling faster you can do much more with less resource,
like live preview, it can actually make your writing experience better.
I think it's always

> 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.

Well, by "we" do you mean the TeX Live team or just tlmgr devs? I think
it will still be helpful if TeX Live delivers part of the "core" binaries
like pdftex, xetex and luatex in 64-bit, as Taco stated, it will make these
programs significantly faster.

Anyway, you can't avoid this problem in other OSes either, for instance,
I don't think we are providing 64-bit binaries on Mac OS X, which we
really should.

BTW, what's the point of having a cygwin binary if you can use a native
one?

- Jiang