[tex-live] texlive for win64

Taco Hoekwater taco at elvenkind.com
Mon Nov 16 15:52:12 CET 2009



T T wrote:
> 2009/11/16 Taco Hoekwater <taco at elvenkind.com>:
>> 64bit executables run noticeably faster than 32bit executables.
> 
> Do you mean this in general or TeX workloads specifically?

No, TeX specifically. I suspect this is because a memory_word
(tex's internal unit) is 64bits, so it can be stored inside
a cpu register in a 64bit architecture.

Best wishes,
Taco


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