Re: [NTG-context] texexec with 2 processors?

> You cannot start processing page 500 before you know where page 499
> wil end. TeX is not really a kind of application where you would gain
> a lot by parallelization. And honestly, I don't remember seing many
> applications using both cores. (Plus: I'm happy if other applications
> continue to run smoothly instead of being blocked by TeX using 95% of
> both processors.)
Hm, not so sure. Think for example to a book with 3 chapters, and you
know at priori that there are not relations
among them (references etc).
You can
1) typeset each of them in a concurrent way,
2) recompose the final document to correct pagenumbers and build indeces

(this is a TeX concurrency )

>
>> It could be useful for offering typesetting services. I'm thinking about
>> having a computation service like alpha.wolfram but with ConTeXt. Like
>> ConTeXt online but benefit from multiple processors....
>
> If you would offer a service, you would get multiple requests at the
> same time anyway, so there's no real need for that in this case
It's another kind of concurrency, it's about servers and OS (apache -
Linux vs IIE - Windows server etc)

> You can try XeTeX if you want to put load on both processors. It does
> offer a parallel process as far as I heard, but then you'll probably
> want support for quad-core once you get a better computer :)
Again, another kind of concurrency.
it's about luatex or pdftext or xetex C programs


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luigi