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Re:Rewriting LaTeX in Pure Rust by jeltz on Monday December 07, 2020 @06:42AM (#25331249)
LaTeX is a typesetting ststem, not a documentation system. Doing typesetting of large documents is performance critical.
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Re:Rewriting LaTeX in Pure Rust by moldavi on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:37AM (#25356865)
If typesetting is performance critical, what would count as a non-performance critical program?
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