On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Arno Trautmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > > luigi scarso wrote: >> >> New beta release of luajittex. >> It's in sync with luatex beta 0.75.0, plus Luajit 2.0.1 > > > Luigi, would you consider putting luajittex into TL Contrib? I'm not sure > how you distribute luajittex (code only, binaries, formats?), especially > since: > > >> The project is hosted as usual at >> https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/luajittex/ > > > I cannot find any files there: Clicking on “files“ gives me: > “There are no file packages defined for this project.” > > What am I doing wrong? > > cheers > Arno luajittex would be "almost the same as luatex, apart an average 20%--40% gain in speed ". The problem is that luajit is (still?) based on Lua 5.1, and luatex is now based on Lua 5.2. luajittex is compiled with a Lua 5.2 compatible switch on, but I'm not sure that this can solve all the problems. Also luajit wants a recent gcc, and is not compilable for all the platforms of the texlive. Luajit is still in its infancy and needs tests. We have spent quite some time on ConTeXt mkiv (which probably has the large codebase in Lua), and we have observed for example that the compiler has its own influence on luajittex, so for now the choice is to provide only the sources by svn plus some scripts for the gcc, clang and i586-mingwmscv compilers. The W32TeX project at http://www.w32tex.org/ or its mirror at http://ctan.ijs.si has an update version of luajittex for windows compiled with the MS compiler (see http://ctan.ijs.si/mirror/w32tex/current/ChangeLog) Others binaries are managed by Mojca and the builder team at http://svn.contextgarden.net/suite-bin/tex/
Of course I cannot exclude that in the future I will put some binaries at TLContrib, but it's not an immediate goal. -- luigi
