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From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Does MKIV take more time as MKII
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:52:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimX6tDB=eoJJYRvQorfEDUzXv+jF-P73dk7WDL-@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D80E7D1.2040505@wxs.nl>

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> On 14-3-2011 8:52, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> PS: You would get the same kind of behaviour in MKII (however if MKII
>> only runs twice and if there is a speed factor of 1.5, you could
>> declare MKII being "three times faster" which does make some
>> difference when compilation time is long).
>
> depends on the changes ... in an automated flow, if you knwo what happens
> you can limit it with a flag
>
>> 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
>
> sure, i'm current redoing the font code a bit and gain some time (and memory
> in mkiv) .. but don't expect miracles

Maybe luajit can improve things considerably.

-- 
luigi
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-16 16:52 UTC|newest]

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
2011-03-16 16:39             ` Hans Hagen
2011-03-16 16:52               ` luigi scarso [this message]
2011-03-16 16:59                 ` Hans Hagen
2011-03-14 17:54 ` Philipp Gesang

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