James Booth

Option 1 - new builds are pushed to texlive.latexjs.org (with the rest of the texlive mirror). + Keeps texlive mirror/releases in lockstep + How it's already done - Have to...

Simple website explaining latexjs

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Can be hosted with GitHub Pages.

Extract THINFS to it's own project?

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It's not LaTeX specific, perhaps it's useful for other similar compiled tools?

We should be able to migrate between two versions of the `THINFS` mirror of texlive.

Investigate Web Assembly (WASM)

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It seems that a reasonable proportion of the time spent in executing pdftex is spent in parsing and initialisation, and as such WASM may reduce execution times noticeably, especially for...

Optimise

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Our current Emscripten build of `pdftex` is around 3x slower than the native once up and running + a fixed initailzation cost. WASM (#1) would perhaps reduce the initialisation time...

E.g: ``` > npm install -g @latexjs/pdflatex > pdflatex -v ``` Just works (with `THINFS` etc)