On Apr 10, 2008, at 5:18 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > Hi, > > There is a new version of luatex and mkiv. You need to update them > together. The best place to get them is the contextgarden (which will > probably have the new versions pretty soon). > > This release of is rather substantial: no longer is metaposts called, > but mplib is used instead. This bring down metapost runtime and > conversion to nearly zero. The user interface is the same, but the > implementation is different. > > Tomorrow (or so) taco will make releasenotes. > > Hans > Hi Hans,
I just downloaded and payed with it very very briefly - it works, and it seems A LOT faster with my presentations, where every background is calculated by metapost. For this sort of file, luatex now looks a lot faster than pdftex. I'm looking forward to comparing speed some more. Thanks and kudos to Taco and to you! All best Thomas ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
