[tldoc] more changes

Akira Kakuto kakuto at fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.jp
Fri Jan 12 07:58:17 CET 2007


Hi Staszek,

> I'm sorry, but I've just made some important changes to the original 
> live.tex (#3366). Please see the attached diff file for changes between 
> 3361 and 3362 (internal version). The changes mostly concerns Windows, 
> incorporates all notes from Akira Kakuto (rechecked and slighly modified), 
> etc.
> 
> Now I can switch to the Polish translation. Thanks to help from Jerzy,
> I have some less work to do. Anyway the original file has to be changed,
> as well as all other translations.

TeXLive-2007-Windows has two Kpathsea's: Fabrice's and of W32TeX.
Kpathsea of W32TeX does not use shared memory. Most programs use
Kpathsea of W32TeX. mktex*.exe, kpsecheck.exe etc. use Fabrice's.

Therefore I removed the first item as follows:

Thanks,
Akira


--- live.tex.orig	Fri Jan 12 15:40:19 2007
+++ live.tex	Fri Jan 12 15:44:42 2007
@@ -1467,18 +1467,6 @@
 pointed out.
 
 \begin{description}
-\item[\KPS{}] The hash-tables that \KPS{} builds are quite large for
-  the \TL{}. In order to cut down the starting time of any
-  \KPS{}-enabled program, these hash-tables have been put in shared
-  memory. This way, when you chain the execution of several such
-  programs, like \path|tex| calling \path|mpost| calling \path|tex|,
-  the overhead when starting each of the subprograms is
-  reduced. This change is hidden to the user, except if you set the
-  debug flag of kpathsea to the \path|-1| value: you will then trace
-  access to the shared memory, which is not what you want (it is
-  accessed very often!). What is useful in a log trace of the shared
-  memory access is still to be defined, so the situation might evolve
-  in the future.
 \item[\cmdname{kpsecheck}] This command provides some options that did
   not fit well into \cmdname{kpsewhich}. It will allow you to list all
   the files that occur multiple times across your texmf trees. This



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