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Slightly offtopic: many commenters lament that latex is slow. I switched to https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/ https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io
by vzaliva 2y ago
Slightly offtopic: many commenters lament that latex is slow. I switched to https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/ https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/ which is very fast and have better error reporting.
- pcranaway 2y agoYup. I use both LaTeX and Typst (although I prefer Typst when possible) and I haven't used anything other than tectonic for the past few years. It simply has everything you need included, and is pretty darn fast too.
- ratmice 2y agoFWIW, as a long time user of tectonic I just started a project using typst yesterday, I'm really curious if typst will be able to do parallel downloading of packages than tectonic. This is something which I have found can affect initial first time document builds since it can cause sequential downloading of a lot of small files sequentially. The reason why it is difficult to parallelize or fix in tectonic itself is the way latex itself is parsed in a turing complete fashion. Importing a package can affect subsequent parsing. This makes it basically impossible to build a map of package dependencies without interpreting the entire document. I'm curious to see how typst handles such things.