From: Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Does MKIV take more time as MKII
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:56:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7B37EF38-2023-4494-884A-C4E3F9C3C7A7@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=SDb9Y=drDYGdU6bhx4eKOy2J3bPWT2HZA+4qk@mail.gmail.com>
Am 2011-03-14 um 20:52 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
> PPS (not to be taken (too) seriously): But I wouldn't be surprized if,
> say, two years from now you would try to repeat the experiment just to
> find out that MKIV became faster. (Unlikely to happen, but imaging
> Taco coming to idea to use all the four processor cores of your new
> machine and Hans reducing the number of required runs from three to
> two plus some extra optimizations.)
You can’t use several threads (or even processor cores) at once for
linear tasks like TeXing. We already had that discussion several times.
(It might be possible to re-write TeX again to parallelize some sub-
tasks, but as far as I can imagine, this would yield minor speed gains
after a huge programming effort.)
Greetlings from Lake Constance!
Hraban
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-14 10:23 Cecil Westerhof
2011-03-14 11:44 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-03-14 11:48 ` Cecil Westerhof
2011-03-14 13:02 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-03-14 13:34 ` Alan BRASLAU
2011-03-14 13:47 ` Cecil Westerhof
2011-03-14 19:52 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-03-14 20:22 ` John Haltiwanger
2011-03-15 7:56 ` Henning Hraban Ramm [this message]
2011-03-16 16:39 ` Hans Hagen
2011-03-16 16:52 ` luigi scarso
2011-03-16 16:59 ` Hans Hagen
2011-03-14 17:54 ` Philipp Gesang
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