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Real-Time LuaTeX: Recompiling Large Documents in 1ms [pdf]
The briefing
Real-Time LuaTeX: Recompiling Large Documents in 1ms [pdf] is a developing story worth watching.
Why it matters
The force of this story is not in the headline but in the decisions it will force across the real, time, luatex, recompiling, large landscape.
What sits behind it
Hacker News places this within a longer arc of developments around real, time, luatex, recompiling, large.
Where this fits in Signal Ledger
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Our take
Signal Ledger treats real-time luatex: recompiling large documents in 1ms [pdf] as a pulse in a longer signal; the pattern matters more than the single beat.
Source note
Hacker News reporting: https://www.tug.org/tug2026/preprints/lode-realtime.pdf