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From: Henri <henrimenke@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: luatex
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 09:05:36 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1509393936.3129.1.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4186e861-c950-ca41-ebae-2abc4128627b@wxs.nl>

Are there any implications for the LuaJIT support?

LuaJIT is quite a bit faster than Lua which is why I always typeset my documents using luajittex.

On Mon, 2017-10-30 at 17:26 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Luigi and I are currently looking into Lua 5.3 in combination with 
> LuaTeX. We have an experimental setup and all seems to work well, which 
> given the new number model of Lua is good news. Depending on how we 
> compile the binaries we either gain some speed or in the worst case 
> loose half the performance but that will be sorted out one of these days 
> as we know where to look.
> 
> For most users the consequences will be minimal but for those who use a 
> lot of Lua it makes sense to keep an eye on the subtle differences 
> between 5.2 and 5.3 which is why I post this.
> 
> For TeXLive we don't expect the switch before 2019 (so 2018 will ship 
> two binaries with the 5.2 one the official one) but for the context 
> distribution we will make the switch earlier so that we can test in real 
> situations.
> 
> Hans
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-30 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-30 16:26 luatex Hans Hagen
2017-10-30 17:57 ` luatex massi
2017-10-30 20:05 ` Henri [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-08-28 16:06 luatex Hans Hagen
2007-10-23 12:33 luatex Thomas A. Schmitz
2007-10-23 14:49 ` luatex Hans Hagen
2007-10-25 15:55   ` luatex John Culleton
2007-10-25 16:10     ` luatex Hans Hagen
2007-10-25 19:04       ` luatex John Culleton
2007-10-25 19:21         ` luatex Arthur Reutenauer
2007-10-26 11:01           ` luatex Martin Schröder
2007-10-26 11:21             ` luatex Mojca Miklavec
2007-10-26 12:23             ` luatex luigi scarso
2007-10-26 17:14     ` luatex Renaud Aubin

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