Re: Recent releases of ConTeXt LMTX crash at \starttext when expl3 is loaded

On 8/5/2026 10:18 AM, Joseph Wright wrote:

> It's not just ConTeXt, of course: any change in data loading would also 
> need to be done for plain, OpTeX, etc., and the probability of agreement 
> is very low. (We use the same data loading code in LaTeX and other 
> formats, it's just that in LaTeX that's done in format-building and 
> dumped. We really don't want multiple code paths.)

loading more in the format also creates mor hash colisions, stuff 
spreading over memory so less cache hits, duplicate stuff (why unicode 
at all when we already have that; i'd just not loaded it) ... as max 
explains ... makes little sense in context so just don't waste too much 
time on it as there is very little overlap between latex and context 
(different worlds)

Hans

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