18 Jul
2009
18 Jul
'09
10:23 a.m.
Hans Hagen wrote:
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
I'll wait at least for Akira's binary (linux, linux-64, mac and
fyi: i've been doing some speed test yesterday and was puzzled by the speed of luatex on linux ... as it is a 64 server, i just tried the new bins from the garden
the run went down from 1.7 seconds (32 bit) to 1.1 seconds (64 bit) ... quite a difference!
This is a fairly typical effect of the AMD64 architecture's extra cpu registers in 64-bit mode (although the effect is not often as big as it is in tex) Best wishes, Taco