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by eru 406 days ago
That's an interesting point.

HTML is usually distributed 'as source'. TeX (or LaTeX) is usually compiled to some other format first, before being distributed.
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naikrovek 405 days ago
Yeah, I wonder how good TeX renderers would have gotten if page rendering happened client side in a browser.
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eru 405 days 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.
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naikrovek 404 days ago
Why does TeX take so long to render documents today, then?
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