Am 2012-05-30 um 21:35 schrieb Bernardo Barros:
On 05/30/2012 09:14 AM, Bernardo Barros wrote:
Not
sure about the user base, but it is growing fast.
it seems some very motivated guy started a implementation of TeX in
Haskell. It says it already does math formulas and footnotes. Maybe he
is just crazy.
https://github.com/luispedro/hex
He says he is trying to achieve ``better scripting, faster, use of
multi-core[...]''
Great, if it actually works. (AFAIK there’s also a implementation of
certain parts of TeX in JavaScript...)
On TeX mailing lists we frequently hear ideas of parallelizing (multi-
threading) of TeX tasks. The wizards tell us, most of the processing
would be unsuitable for parallelizing, because every bit of layout is
depending on the previous. (Thus, luispedro’s #3, #4, #10 would be
impossible to do.)
Some lunatics ;-) spent a lot of effort re-implementing TeX in Java,
that was called "NTS" (new typsetting system); they stopped after
implementing TeX compatibility (alias "OTS" = old ts. system). I heard
it was sluggish and ugly, but the team found the last bugs in TeX and
immediately started the development of LuaTeX, that’s still in
development but already a big success. (It also includes MetaPost as a
library, thus inlining MP graphics processing.)
Greetlings, Hraban
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