Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!ucdavis!iris!kwok From: kwok@iris.ucdavis.edu (Conrad Kwok) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: tex82 or ctex2.9? Message-ID: <2375@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Date: 7 Jul 88 00:52:24 GMT References: <17268@gatech.edu> <11071@sol.ARPA> Sender: uucp@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu Reply-To: kwok@iris.UUCP (Conrad Kwok) Organization: U.C. Davis - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Lines: 22 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 internet: kwok@iris.ucdavis.edu csnet : kwok@ucd.csnet csnet : kwok%iris.ucdavis.edu@csnet.relay uucp : {ucbvax, uunet, ... }!ucdavis!iris!kwok