[tex-live] Request for performance check of legacy darwin (luatex)

Mojca Miklavec mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 12:25:39 CET 2018


Hi,

Last year there were many complaints about the slowness of darwin
legacy binaries.

Is anyone willing to test these and compare them with, say, TL2016 and
the non-legacy darwin binaries compiled by Dick which are already in
TL pretest?
   http://dl.contextgarden.net/build/texlive/darwin/

There's currently one variant of the build available, but I'll prepare
a couple more.

The binaries above (x86_64-darwinlegacy_libc++_nomods.tar.xz) were
compiled with clang 5.0 on 10.6 and should in principle work out of
the box on 10.7 and later. On 10.6 they only work for those who have
libc++ installed (for example from MacPorts) and a few further
modifications are needed to make them work entirely out of the box on
10.6, but that's a different topic.

Mojca


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