[tex-live] Port of TeX Live to x86_64 architecture?

[Hans Hagen]

Martin Schröder wrote:

>On 2004-06-30 16:02:05 +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
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>>I am curious if there is a working TeX Live distribution compiled for 
>>x86_64 architecture? I asked Sebastian this directly but I understand 
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>Not yet, probably because nobody has a machine. Could you provide
>binaries?
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>I also doubt that any of the programs in TL will benefit from
>64bit; many are not even 16bit proper. :-)
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it may even be worse because tex leaves much of the 32/64 bits unused and allocates most of its mem in advance; on the other hand, graphic inclusion in pdftex and the other c-only code (fonts) may benefit from more power. 

Hans  

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