On 11/26/2020 6:07 PM, luigi scarso wrote:
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> Il Gio 26 Nov 2020, 18:00 Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl
> <mailto:j.hagen@xs4all.nl>> ha scritto:
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> On 11/26/2020 5:10 PM, luigi scarso wrote:
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> > On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 5:00 PM Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl
> <mailto:j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
> > <mailto:j.hagen@xs4all.nl <mailto:j.hagen@xs4all.nl>>> wrote:
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> > Of course, if they care about luatex cs support they
> > could send an M1 mini to Mojca for the compile farm for some real
> > testing.
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> > very likely luatex will run full native on M1 on next texlive,
> following
> > http://www.tug.org/mactex/aboutarm.html
> <http://www.tug.org/mactex/aboutarm.html>
> > <http://www.tug.org/mactex/aboutarm.html
> <http://www.tug.org/mactex/aboutarm.html>>
> that's with universal binaries (as happened before when apple switched
> from powerpc to intel)
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> Full native:
> """
> Full native Arm support will arrive with MacTeX-2021 next spring.
> """
sure, but by using a unversal bin:
it's not bad, 13MB (or less, due the shared data) vs 6.5MB for downloading is still acceptable for the user.
Of course for the provider it doubles the space, but I fear that this cannot be avoided for the next five years.