From: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] eqn
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 10:24:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP2nic1RrcNjm8FyDVrt4bnxTe72RP5EgVdhgptjWBe5JNCCbw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <389f5a69-e103-7ec3-9b95-3e6e294a86e6@gmail.com>
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A modern TeX would probably look a lot like SILE:
http://sile-typesetter.org/
Simon's a smart guy. It's a pretty neat project.
On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 9:13 AM Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> One slightly OT fact about TeX. On my 16GB, Core i7, SATA SSD
> Lenovo T430s laptop running Fedora 30, it takes ~3 seconds to run TeX on
> the ~900 page TeXBook. That's pretty fast. TeX contains all kinds of
> code to make it fit in the constraints of a 1980s computer. I wonder
> whether a redesign for a 2020 computer would be faster or slower.
>
> I suspect, but can't prove, that classic [nt]roff might also
> benefit in the same way. groff was written latter, so it might
> suffer less.
>
> Jon
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-04 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-04 4:20 Larry McVoy
2019-10-04 4:35 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-10-04 5:12 ` George Michaelson
2019-10-04 13:43 ` Nemo
2019-10-04 14:57 ` aksr
2019-10-04 15:52 ` U'll Be King of the Stars
2019-10-04 16:12 ` Jon Forrest
2019-10-04 17:24 ` Adam Thornton [this message]
2019-10-04 18:55 ` Kurt H Maier
2019-10-04 17:43 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2019-10-06 8:03 ` arnold
2019-10-04 19:02 ` Larry McVoy
2019-10-07 17:26 ` Seth J. Morabito
2019-10-07 19:14 ` Adam Thornton
2019-10-08 21:11 ` Seth Morabito
2019-10-04 19:25 ` Fabio Scotoni
2019-10-05 1:59 Doug McIlroy
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