[tex-live] running programs from texlive tlc2

[Hans Hagen]

Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> books with Hebrew or/and "interlinear" (bilingual) layout do take an 
> awful long time to typeset. My Hebrew OT takes 1 hour to process on 
> Celeron 600MHz 256M RAM but only 9.5 minutes on x86_64 2x4GHz 1G RAM 
> (using natice 64bit binaries).

fyi: 64 bit is some 25% faster than 32 bit, and even then, not all of the 
os-code is 64bit; dual processors don't make a difference for tex(quite a big 
machine btw, dual 4 gig processors)

Hans

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