On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Philipp Gesang <philipp.gesang@alumni.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
···<date: 2014-05-07, Wednesday>···<from: Hans Hagen>···

>                                 It's not like old-time computers running
> twice as fast each year, Btw, this is one of the reasons for the
> speedups. I don't expect cpu's to become much faster.

Luigi did investigate the potential for parallelism, though, didn’t he?

for Lua things are easier 
http://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/2014-pl/presentations/openmp-slides.pdf

For TeX and MetaPost... it's another story
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luigi