[OS X TeX] Textures Announcement

[George Gratzer]

You are right Gary, this is awsome.

GG

On Mar 9, 2006, at 4:00 PM, Gary L. Gray wrote:

>
> On Mar 9, 2006, at 4:25 PM, Rick Zaccone wrote:
>
>> This item appeared on the Blue Sky news page <http:// 
>> www.bluesky.com/news/news_frames.html> today.
>>
>> Rick
>>
>>> 9 March 2006: Textures® for OS X, Rosetta and Universal
>>>
>>> We have had the opportunity in recent days to test Textures on  
>>> the Intel Macintosh platform. We are pleased to report that  
>>> Textures appears to work without problems under Rosetta (i.e., as  
>>> interpreted PowerPC code); also, we have successfully compiled  
>>> and run Textures as a Universal application with native Intel  
>>> code. Although there are still some packaging issues, we believe  
>>> this to be the last major hurdle before we can make the first  
>>> preliminary version available to Textures owners. (There are  
>>> minor problems with the Intel code, so the first version  
>>> available will be PowerPC and Rosetta only; the Universal version  
>>> will follow shortly.)
>>>
>>> We know that many are interested in the performance of the Intel  
>>> platform, so we report these times for native Textures to compile  
>>> the 494 pages of The TeXbook: 1.33 seconds (G5 @ 2.0GHz); 1.1  
>>> seconds (MacBook Pro @ 1.83GHz).
>>>
>>> More news soon ...
>
>
> Surely prompted by recent discussion. :-)
>
> I have been cynical about its release, but those speeds certainly  
> do pique my interest, especially if they quickly come out with a  
> universal binary version (I am PowerPC no longer...).
>
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