On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 07:33:35PM +0000, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2011-05-06, venom00 wrote: > >> >> Lua > >> >> + small and fast, > >> >> + used in LuaTeX, so it will become more common and known in the > >> >> TeX community, > >> >> + a Lua interpreter can be embedded in LyX with minimal > >> impact on > >> >> the binary size. > > >> > Wasn't there another thread with the result that LyX is not > >> > bloated enough? > > Actually this was a response to the "allow plug-ins" sub-thread of > the "goals for 2.1". The idea was to reduce the memory footprint by a > plugin system.
But honestly, the memory footprint of LyX is really not a problem. We are talking about a 8.5 stripped binary. Some screensavers have more fat. It's really not worth even _thinking_ about a plugin system to reduce binary size. > [...] > With an embedded Lua interpreter, OTOH the impact on performance will be > small for tasks like writing/parsing config files, lyx2lyx, tex2lyx etc. > The "intelligence" can be stored in scripts that do not bloat the main > binary. What bloat, please? Andre'
