From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: texexec with 2 processors?
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:15:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A978409.20506@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fe8d59da0908272334p3e4e7437s17906793a99533ab@mail.gmail.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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-28 7:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-27 19:40 Xan
2009-08-27 20:22 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-08-27 22:34 ` Xan
2009-08-28 6:14 ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-08-28 6:34 ` luigi scarso
2009-08-28 7:15 ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]
2009-08-28 7:57 ` luigi scarso
[not found] ` <6faad9f00908272315x204e39a3v8b4482e61809ffb5@mail.gmail.com>
2009-08-28 8:26 ` Xan
2009-08-28 9:50 ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-08-28 10:07 ` Xan
2009-08-28 11:03 ` Hans Hagen
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