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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

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