Hi
We currently have
mkii : which uses pdftex/xetex
mkiv : which uses lua(jit)tex 1.10
and next year we will also have
lmtx : which runs luatex
functionally there is no difference between mkiv and lmtx but there are
some diferences under the hood. It might also turn out to be a bit more
efficient (at least this is what experiments here indicate).
The lmtx version is part of a "long term stability" approach and it will
probably take some time (and esp testing) to reach that goal. When
experiments work out well, the next context meeting will be showtime.
One of these days I will ask context dev to test this version because
decisions have to be made on how to roll this out. The reason that I
mention this development is that in upcoming beta releases one can run
into (not that dramatic, easy to fix) issues related to reshuffing some
code. I might also involve users who (I know) runs massive amounts of
complex documents.
Because there is no functional change there are no consequences for
daily use of context. However, there can be additional functionality at
some point. So, from the users perspective lmtx is just mkiv, but in
some places it will identify itself as lmtx (which is handy for checking).
Hans
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