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		naikrovek 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Modern LaTeX Yeah, I wonder how good TeX renderers would have gotten if page rendering happened client side in a browser.

eru 10 months ago [–]

TeX worked (and works) in batch mode on ancient hardware. Today's computers are so much faster, that this should actually be fast enough to run interactively without having to change or optimise too much.

naikrovek 10 months ago | [–]

Why does TeX take so long to render documents today, then?

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