[NTG-context] Re: Why LuaMetaTex is so slow?

On 19 Jan 2024, at 11:00, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

Am 19.01.24 um 10:31 schrieb Hans Hagen:

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(that said: luametatex runs fine on my mobile phone)

What’s the smallest/oldest device someone tried LMTX on? (We were joking about “Hans’ thermostate and Alan’s fridge“…) Would it run on some 8 bit homecomputer? (I’d guess the RAM is too limited, and loading from datasette would need hours…)

No. You need integers (and pointers) to be at least 32 bits wide. And you also need about 90Mb of RAM for the initial malloc()s. Historical 8-bit and 16-bit CPUs will not work. A modern fridge might, though. :) — Taco Hoekwater E: taco@bittext.nl genderfluid (all pronouns)