Re: new version luatex / mkiv

["Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

On Apr 10, 2008, at 5:18 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is a new version of luatex and mkiv. You need to update them
> together. The best place to get them is the contextgarden (which will
> probably have the new versions pretty soon).
>
> This release of is rather substantial: no longer is metaposts called,
> but  mplib is used instead. This bring down metapost runtime and
> conversion to nearly zero. The user interface is the same, but the
> implementation is different.
>
> Tomorrow (or so) taco will make releasenotes.
>
> Hans
>
Hi Hans,

I just downloaded and payed with it very very briefly - it works, and  
it seems A LOT faster with my presentations, where every background is  
calculated by metapost. For this sort of file, luatex now looks a lot  
faster than pdftex. I'm looking forward to comparing speed some more.  
Thanks and kudos to Taco and to you!

All best

Thomas
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