Are there any implications for the LuaJIT support? LuaJIT is quite a bit faster than Lua which is why I always typeset my documents using luajittex.
On Mon, 2017-10-30 at 17:26 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: > Hi, > > Luigi and I are currently looking into Lua 5.3 in combination with > LuaTeX. We have an experimental setup and all seems to work well, which > given the new number model of Lua is good news. Depending on how we > compile the binaries we either gain some speed or in the worst case > loose half the performance but that will be sorted out one of these days > as we know where to look. > > For most users the consequences will be minimal but for those who use a > lot of Lua it makes sense to keep an eye on the subtle differences > between 5.2 and 5.3 which is why I post this. > > For TeXLive we don't expect the switch before 2019 (so 2018 will ship > two binaries with the 5.2 one the official one) but for the context > distribution we will make the switch earlier so that we can test in real > situations. > > Hans > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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://context.aanhet.net > archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
