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From: ken@rochester.UUCP
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Subject: Re: How can I get TeX in C?
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Date: Thu, 26-Mar-87 22:10:27 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 26 22:10:27 1987
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Let me just add my experience running Common TeX. It is about 20%
faster and only 10% smaller. I guess on a program of that size you
don't get to save much on memory. The poor speedup might have been
because the C was a literal translation from Pascal. One could rewrite
the hot spots to use C constructs but with the risk of breaking the
algorithm.

The first version of C-TeX is believed to still have bugs, so I didn't
think it was worth installing. I'd be interesting in hearing from
anybody who has fixed the bugs.

However, TeX can now be ported to machines without a decent Pascal
compiler but with a good C compiler. And you don't have to put the
whole source in one file.

	Ken