From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@bittext.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: [NTG-context] Re: Why LuaMetaTex is so slow?
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 11:35:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <09826CE8-95C4-4717-8E26-B81274991899@bittext.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b8c905da-8e41-45d1-aef4-be33aad90057@fiee.net>
> On 19 Jan 2024, at 11:00, Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net> wrote:
>
> Am 19.01.24 um 10:31 schrieb Hans Hagen:
>> (that said: luametatex runs fine on my mobile phone)
>
> What’s the smallest/oldest device someone tried LMTX on?
> (We were joking about “Hans’ thermostate and Alan’s fridge“…)
> Would it run on some 8 bit homecomputer? (I’d guess the RAM is too limited, and loading from datasette would need hours…)
No. You need integers (and pointers) to be at least 32 bits wide. And you also need about 90Mb of RAM for the initial malloc()s.
Historical 8-bit and 16-bit CPUs will not work. A modern fridge might, though. :)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-01-19 10:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-18 17:24 [NTG-context] " Shiv Shankar Dayal
2024-01-18 17:47 ` [NTG-context] " Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context
2024-01-18 18:40 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2024-01-18 18:56 ` Shiv Shankar Dayal
2024-01-18 19:08 ` Mikael Sundqvist
2024-01-18 19:31 ` Hans Hagen
2024-01-18 23:34 ` Aditya Mahajan
2024-01-19 0:09 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2024-01-19 0:33 ` Aditya Mahajan
2024-01-19 8:51 ` Hans Hagen
2024-01-18 22:15 ` Bruce Horrocks
2024-01-19 9:31 ` Hans Hagen
2024-01-19 10:00 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2024-01-19 10:35 ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]
2024-01-19 10:49 ` Hans Hagen
2024-01-19 18:13 ` Bruce Horrocks
2024-01-19 18:30 ` Hans Hagen
2024-01-18 20:55 ` Gavin via ntg-context
2024-01-18 21:33 ` Joseph Wright
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