Re: texexec with 2 processors?

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

luigi scarso wrote:
>> You cannot start processing page 500 before you know where page 499
>> wil end.  []

> Hm, not so sure. Think for example to a book with 3 chapters, and you
> know at priori that there are not relations

The root of the problem is that because TeX is a programming language
as well as a typesetting engine, there is no way of knowing what
the state of the engine will be after the next token has been read,
never mind the next chapter.

Mojca wrote:
>> You can try XeTeX if you want to put load on both processors. It does
>> offer a parallel process as far as I heard

Xetex runs the typesetting engine and the PDF generation backend in
separate processes. Luatex may eventually start doing that also.

Best wishes,
Taco


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