Real-Time LuaTeX: Recompiling Large Documents in 1ms [pdf]
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Hacker News is highlighting a preprint that proposes optimizing LuaTeX, the typesetting engine used in academic publishing, to recompile large documents in one millisecond. The research was presented this year at the TeX Users Group conference.
Source: https://www.tug.org/tug2026/preprints/lode-realtime.pdf
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