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From: kwok@iris.ucdavis.edu (Conrad Kwok)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: tex82 or ctex2.9?
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Date: 7 Jul 88 00:52:24 GMT
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In article <11071@sol.ARPA> ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) writes:
>
>Unix TeX now comes with WEB to C so Pascal is no longer needed. It
>passes the trip test on the most common Unix boxes. It is about 20%
>faster than the Pascal version.  The advantage of this version is that
>it can track bug fixes in the original WEB code as and when Knuth
>announces them.

I compile common tex 2.9 using "gcc -O". That is 40% faster and
20% smaller than the PASCAL version of tex. I didn't try it on
the WEB2C version. But I think the result would be similar.

Another advantages of using common TeX 2.9 is that they have a
BIG and BIGG version. BIGG version has a memory size about five
times of TeX.

--Conrad

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