From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/40034 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Thomas A. Schmitz" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: new version luatex / mkiv Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:17:16 +0200 Message-ID: <1CA73915-5A23-480D-A28B-3E0403789C6B@uni-bonn.de> References: <47FE2FB9.3020305@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207862343 1132 80.91.229.12 (10 Apr 2008 21:19:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:19:03 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Apr 10 23:19:35 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jk4Au-0002JD-Up for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:19:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FA761FB8F; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:18:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12618-03-3; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:17:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9F271FB82; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:17:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E37FA1FB7E for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:17:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11063-05 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:17:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailout02.t-online.de (mailout02.t-online.de [194.25.134.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 226981FB8E for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:17:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from fwd29.aul.t-online.de by mailout02.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 1Jk490-00027Z-03; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:17:18 +0200 Original-Received: from [192.168.0.2] (Z6WnGBZ1ghK1n4nJ40+NMF57J5mOzlwjWStI9UK7261Bk1A2FRl+2jRu4+3o1Cgg6n@[87.178.127.103]) by fwd29.aul.t-online.de with esmtp id 1Jk48z-0tJ1sG0; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:17:17 +0200 In-Reply-To: <47FE2FB9.3020305@wxs.nl> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) X-ID: Z6WnGBZ1ghK1n4nJ40+NMF57J5mOzlwjWStI9UK7261Bk1A2FRl+2jRu4+3o1Cgg6n@t-dialin.net X-TOI-MSGID: 2e75ef87-ed19-4320-812d-2ec29c352795 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:40034 Archived-At: 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________