Re: texexec with 2 processors?

[Xan <dxpublica@telefonica.net>]

En/na Mojca Miklavec ha escrit:
>   
>
> You cannot start processing page 500 before you know where page 499
> wil end. TeX is not really a kind of application where you would gain
> a lot by parallelization. And honestly, I don't remember seing many
> applications using both cores. (Plus: I'm happy if other applications
> continue to run smoothly instead of being blocked by TeX using 95% of
> both processors.)
>   
I did not say to process page 500 before the page 499. I just say use 
all power of the multiple processors.
>   
>> It could be useful for offering typesetting services. I'm thinking about
>> having a computation service like alpha.wolfram but with ConTeXt. Like
>> ConTeXt online but benefit from multiple processors....
>>     
>
> If you would offer a service, you would get multiple requests at the
> same time anyway, so there's no real need for that in this case
> (you'll face many more serious problems when offering typesetting
> service).
>
>   
You are right here.
>> Joking, perhaps you could fix it in Mark VII ;-)
>>     
>
> You can try XeTeX if you want to put load on both processors. It does
> offer a parallel process as far as I heard,
Is it true?
>  but then you'll probably
> want support for quad-core once you get a better computer :)
>
> Mojca
>   
Xan.
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