Yue Wang wrote:
In my humble opinion this is because TeX manages memory by it self... and maybe a 64bit memory word of packed data uses twice of memory as 32bits one.... I am not sure.
well, the fact that linux 64 bit runs much faster contradicts that one thing that we observed is that the lua garbage collected performs different on different platforms / architectures / cpu cache etc Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------