2012/8/1 Philip TAYLOR <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk>: > Martin Schröder wrote: >> When LuaTeX started I also toyed with the idea and had a look at >> JavaScript interpreters - they were much larger. > > Large enough to have any significant impact on a modern machine, > which one might reasonably expect to have 4Gb of RAM ? Size > mattered when Don wrote TeX; these days it is far far far less > of an issue.
Probably not. IIRC the binaries where around 75 KB (Lua) and 750 KB(JS). Compare this with 1 MB for a recent Knuthian TeX binary (on Linux) and 2 MB for pdfTeX. JS was simply a behemoth to pull in compared to Lua. Best Martin -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
