mailing-list for TeXmacs Users

["Alvaro Tejero Cantero" <address@hidden>]

can you share your experience with TeXmacs performance on a net PC* ?

What worries me is that, according to these benchmarks

- 
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/03/08/intel-atom-initial-benchmarking-data-vs-pentium-and-celeron-m-processors-before-official-release/

- http://www.anandtech.com/systems/showdoc.aspx?i=3321&p=8

the atom 1.6GhZ processor is still significantly slower than a Pentium
M Dothan at 1.73 Ghz. This was the first laptop processor with which I
felt at ease editing TeXmacs documents.

My usual test for TeXmacs speed is to open a long document (e.g. a
full manual) and start typing at the end of a long paragraph. If the
responsiveness is not good, then the computer is not apt for (my)
TeXmacs use. What other benchmarks can you think of?

Since the only performance intensive app I ever run on a laptop is
TeXmacs, I wonder when will we have the first net PC that passes "the
TeXmacs test".

I would really appreciate any input on this issue of performance,
since I am about to buy a new laptop.

Cheers,

Álvaro

* Asus EEe PC with Celeron, or (more interesting for me) Acer Aspire
ONE with Atom 1.6GhZ, or MSI Wind or HP mininote (Via c7).




? I need to write long documents. My usual performance

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 09:15, Stéphane Paris <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> 2008/8/27 Marc Mertens <address@hidden>
>>
>> Although I have done it on a eee pc 900 (bigger screen), I think it would
>> work
>> also on a eee pc 700. The way i did it was starting synaptic, adding
>> http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ as a packet source, did a search on
>> texmacs
>> and installed texmacs, texmacs-common and texmacs-extra-fonts. As a extra
>> bonus I installed also axiom and both worked very well on my eee.
>> Very usefull to do some math writing in a pub
>>
>> Marc
>>
>> On Wednesday 27 August 2008 14:02, Stéphane Paris wrote:
>> > hello,
>> > is it possible to install texmacs on a eepc700 (with a special linux
>> > embbeded) ?
>> > thanks in advance
>> > stf
>
> Thanks for these good news.
> stf
>