[tlbuild] tl24 build plans

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Johannes,

> \offtopic{%
> "texlive-bin-aarch64-linux.tar.gz.zip"
> (I'm not afraid of the robot apocalypse, as long as the machines are
> still convinced that zipping tarballs is a good idea.)}

Github artifacts action, no way to stop this madness, despite already
requested. At least it is compression level 0 so just working like a
tar.

> The GitHub Actions binaries worked fine on real hardware. Your

Thanks for testing.

> microtype enabled) within 21.8 s.
> Just out of curiosity, my own binaries needed 20.9 s; on modern

Close enough. Probalby you have your binaries optimized for the very
arch you use, AFAIR there are so many combinations of arm.

> x86_64 hardware the same test regularly takes less than 4 seconds. On a
> side note, I'd be very curious to have some numbers from Apple silicon
> (Asahi and/or Mac OS).

I can try them on MacOS, indeed, I have a M1 (for a few more days).

> Your GitHub binaries are a tiny bit smaller than mine (on average 4%).

No idea where this comes from.

> I've seen that we don't have asy and xindy there? But not having those

That is not automatized as of now, but if someone wants to add code to
	Build/source/.github/scripts/build-tl.sh
it would be a great thing.

Best regards and thanks again

Norbert

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