Hi,
I'm planning in the next few weeks to retire my 2012 16GB Mac mini which
has served me well with ConTeXt (and other software) over these past few
years. I was planning on getting the new entry level MAC min M1 with 8GB
unified memory but I see that there will be no ConTeXt binaries for
these new M1 chip Macs. Would it be possible for a ConTeXt user like
myself to build the binaries on my proposed new Mac? I'm not a computer
professional.
Best Wishes
Keith McKay
On 24/11/2020 19:07, Hans Hagen wrote:
Hi,
A new upload. Mojca upgraded the build manager and we also updated
some machines so all binaries (platforms) should be in sync now. (No
binaries for apples M1 and microsofts SQ2 as we don't have these
machines, so just good old intel and arm it is.)
On my rusty laptop the luametatex manual takes between 10 and 10.5 sec
(depending on load). On the raspberry pi 64 bit it takes 32.5 sec
(ubuntu, ssd on usb 3). The Windows Linux Subsystem (version 1) takes
some 11.5 seconds and the domotica fitlet with a low power AMD A10
needs 27.5 sec.) The ratios match measurements of a while ago. In the
meantime the format file got smaller, memory more dynamic and the mem
footprint also smaller. I expect a modern intel laptop cpu to need
some 5 seconds and a decent desktop less but who knows. It's not easy
to squeeze out more (the bottleneck is in the lua code as the
(con)tex(t) code is pretty efficient so we pay a price for flexibility).
(In the process I saw that I bugged the xetex logo but that has to
wait for a next upload. Hardly critital I suspect.)
Hans
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