[tex-live] TeXLive-CD/DVD (Installation)

[Taco Hoekwater]

Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> 
>   > I hope it will be smart enough to avoid allocating memory for TeX
>   > when it is going to be used as a script engine.  Compared to Lua
>   > itself, the TeX text segment is already a sizeable baggage even
>   > though there is a good chance that on modern operating systems
>   > most of it will never get paged when just using the Lua part.

The TeX memory data is never initialized in the texlua case, and
you can't get access to the typesetting-related tables.

Since we want to eventually start using texlua as a tool for batch
editting OpenType fonts also, the text segment size is unlikely to
shrink. The fontforge segment is already almost as large as the
tex segment, and we need a bit more still.

But I expect most systems are copy-on-read these days. We know for
a fact that there is no speed difference between running texlua and
standalone lua 5.1 on linux, nor windows XP, because we tested that.

> Maybe in the future texlua can be a separate program, but it doesn't
> make sense to ask Taco to maintain two programs at the moment.

This may be easier than you think. It is quite possible that just a
few strategically placed #ifdef's will do the trick. I'll get back
to you on that.

Best wishes,

Taco